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

The old saw says, 'Let a sleeping dog lie.' Right. Still, when there is much at stake it is better to get a newspaper to do it.

The educated Southerner has no use for an 'r', except at the beginning of a word.

Golden rule: Made of hard metal so it could stand severe wear, it not being known at that time that butter would answer.

A myriad of men are born; they labor and sweat and struggle; ...they squabble and scold and fight; they scramble for little mean advantages over each other; age creeps upon them; infirmities follow; ...those they love are taken from them, and the joy of life is turned to aching grief. It comes at last--the only unpoisoned gift earth ever had for them--and they vanish from a world where they were of no consequence, ...a world which will lament them a day and forget them forever.

Let us be grateful to Adam: he cut us out of the blessing of idleness and won for us the curse of labor.

But they (the infantry) had no use for boys of twelve and thirteen, and before I had a chance in another war, the desire to kill people to whom I had not been introduced had passed away.