I was exceedingly delighted with the waltz, and also with the polka. These differ in name, but there the difference ceases

Humor is the great thing, the saving thing after all. The minute it crops up, all our hardnesses yield, all our irritations, and resentments flit away, and a sunny spirit takes their place.

The house was as empty as a beer closet in premises where painters have been at work.

I knew a man who grabbed a cat by the tail and learned forty percent more about cats than the man who didn't.

There is not an acre of ground on the globe that is in possession of its rightful owner, or that has not been taken away from owner after owner, cycle afer cycle, by force and bloodshed.

Nature knows no indecencies; man invents them.

I like the truth sometimes, but I don't care enough for it to hanker after it.