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

Two things seemed pretty apparent to me. One was that in order to be a pilot a man had to learn more than any one man ought to learn; and the other was that he must learn it all over again in a different way every 24 hours.

Let us draw the curtain of charity over the rest of this scene

Christianity will doubtless still survive in the earth ten centuries hence- stuffed and in a museum.

Reputation is a hall-mark: it can remove doubt from pure silver, and it can also make the plated article pass for pure.

Damn the subjunctive. It brings all our writers to shame.

As by the fires of experience, so by commission of crime you learn real morals. Commit all crimes, familiarize yourself with all sins, take them in rotation (there are only two or three thousand of them), stick to it, commit two or three every day, and by and by you will be proof against them. When you are through you will be proof against all sins and morally perfect. You will be vaccinated against every possible commission of them. This is the only way.