If I had a mind to rent pigs, I'd be mighty upset. A man that likes to rent pigs won't be stopped.

It's really quite simple. Mr. Isinglass robbed my father, destroyed my mother, exiled my brothers, and ruined me. If I catch him asleep I'll kill him. I do hope you like this pudding. I had to ride quite a way to find the plums.

The reason men are so awful is because some woman has spoiled them.

Uva uvum vivendo varia fit

Writing is a form of herding. I herd words into little paragraph-like clusters.

Occasionally the very youngness of the young moved him to charity--they had no sense of the swiftness of life, nor of its limits. The years would pass like weeks, and loves would pass too, or else grow sour.

I'm sure partial to the evening,' Augustus said. 'The evening and the morning. If we just didn't have to have the rest of the dern day I'd be a lot happier.