Delicacy - a sad, sad false delicacy - robs literature of the two best things among its belongings: Family-circle narratives & obscene stories.

What is Man? Man is a noisome bacillus whom Our Heavenly Father created because he was disappointed in the monkey.

Optimist: day dreamer more elegantly spelled.

There is nothing more awe-inspiring than a miracle except the credulity that can take it at par.

The physician who knows only medicine, knows not even medicine.

Yes - en I's rich now, come to look at it. I owns myself, en I's wuth eight hund'd dollars. I wisht I had de money, I wouldn' want no mo'.

Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.