That stern and rockbound coast felt like an amateur when it saw how grim the puritans that landed on it were.

It is a cheering thought to think that God is on the side of the best digestion.

Persian pussy from over the sea demure and lazy and smug and fat none of your ribbons and bells for me ours is the zest of the alley cat

You want to know whether I believe in ghosts? Of course I do not believe in them. If you had known as many of them as I have, you would not believe in them either.

The art of newspaper paragraphing is to stroke a platitude until it purrs like an epigram.

A little while with grief and laughter, And then the day will close; The shadows gather ... what comes after No man knows.

If a child shows himself incorrigible, he should be decently and quietly beheaded at the age of twelve, lest he grow to maturity, marry, and perpetuate his kind.