Not all the Greek runners in the original Olympics were totally naked. Some wore shoes.

He has been a doctor a year now and has had two patients - no, three, I think - yes, it was three; I attended their funerals.

One thing at a time, is my motto - and just play that thing for all it is worth, even if it's only tto pair and a jack.

Perfect grammar - persistent, continuous, sustained - is the fourth dimension, so to speak; many have sought it, but none has found it.

We are strange beings, we seem to go free, but we go in chains - chains of training, custom, convention, association, environment - in a word, Circumstance, and against these bonds the strongest of us struggle in vain.

Where was the use, originally, in rushing this whole globe through in six days? It is likely that if more time had been taken in the first place, the world would have been made right, and this ceaseless improving and repairing would not be necessary now. But if you hurry a world or a house, you are nearly sure to find out by and by that you have left out a towhead, or a broom-closet, or some other little convenience, here and there, which has got to be supplied, no matter how much expense or vexation it may cost.

To my mind that literature is best and most enduring which is characterized by a noble simplicity.