Human beings are the only creatures who blush - or who need to.

It has taken a weary long time to persuade American Presbyterians to give up infant damnation and try to bear it the best they can.

Good exercise for the heart: reach out and help your neighbor

And what is a man without energy? Nothing - nothing at all.

Pity is for the living, envy is for the dead.

The true and lasting genius of humour does not drag you thus to boxes labelled 'pathos,' 'humour,' and show you all the mechanism of the inimitable puppets that are going to perform. How I used to laugh at Simon Tapperwit, and the Wellers, and a host more! But I can't do it now somehow; and time, it seems to me, is the true test of humour. It must be antiseptic.

The true Southern watermelon is a boon apart, and not to be mentioned with commoner things. It is chief of this world'd luxuries, king by grace of God over all the fruits of the earth. When one has tasted it, he knows what the angels eat. It was not a Southern watermelon that Eve took: we know it because she repented.