I beg your pardon: correct English is the slang of prigs who write history and essays. And the strongest slang of all is the slang of poets.

There is so much to read and the days are so short! I get more hungry for knowledge every day, and less able to satisfy my hunger.

Solomon's Proverbs, I think, have omitted to say, that as the sore palate findeth grit, so an uneasy consciousness heareth innuendos.

Unwonted circumstances may make us all rather unlike ourselves: there are conditions under which the most majestic person is obliged to sneeze, and our emotions are liable to be acted on in the same incongruous manner.

We get a deal o' useless things about us, only because we've got the money to spend.

No man is matriculated to the art of life till he has been well tempted.

trouble always seems heavier when it is only one's thought and not one's bodily activity that is employed about it.