Many of the cemeteries are beautiful, and are kept in perfect order. When one goes from the levee or the business streets [of New Orleans] to it, to a cemetery, he observes to himself that if those people down there would live as neatly while they are alive as they do after they are dead, they would find many advantages in it; and besides, their quarter would be the wonder and admiration of the business world.

After my marriage she edited everything I wrote. And what is more, she not only edited my works, she edited me.

A man is accepted into a church for what he believes and he is turned out for what he knows.

The worst thing you can do to a man is to tell him he can have what he wants.

If Christ were here now there is one thing he would not be — a Christian.

To get the right word in the right place is a rare achievement.

It is easier for a cannibal to enter the Kingdom of Heaven through the eye of a rich man's needle that it is for any other foreigner to read the terrible German script.