The equator was wisely put where it is, because if it had been run through Europe all the kings would have tried to grab it.

A dollar picked up in the road is more satisfaction to you than the ninety-and -nine which you had to work for, and money won at faro or in stock snuggles into your heart in the same way.

The proverb says that Providence protects children and idiots. This is really true. I know because I have tested it.

For we were little Christian children and early learned the value of forbidden fruit.

I am losing enough sleep to supply a worn-out army.

I had longed to be a butterfly, and I was one at last. I attended private parties in sumptuous evening dress, simpered and aired my graces like a born beau, and polkaed and schoisched with a step peculiar to myself - and the kangaroo.

The air up there in the clouds is very pure and fine, bracing and delicious. And why shouldn't it be?--it is the same the angels breathe.