Now is the accepted time to make your regular annual good resolutions. Next week you can begin paving hell with them as usual.

I would not rob you of your food or your clothes or your umbrella, but if I caught your German out I would take it. But I don't study any more,- I have given it up.

Most people can't bear to sit in church for an hour on Sundays. How are they supposed to live somewhere very similar to it for eternity?

Obscurity and a competence—that is the life that is best worth living.

An author values a compliment even when it comes from a source of doubtful competency.

Our lives, our liberty, and our property are never in greater danger than when Congress is in session.

The average man don't like trouble and danger.