Indeed, none but the Deity can tell what is good luck and what is bad before the returns are all in.

It is agreed, in this country, that if a man can arrange his religion so that it perfectly satisfies his conscience, it is not incumbent on him to care whether the arrangement is satisfactory to anyone else or not.

She is not refined. She is not unrefined. She keeps a parrot

In India, 'cold weather' is merely a conventional phrase and has come into use through the necessity of having some way to distinguish between weather which will melt a brass door-knob and weather which will only make it mushy.

Oh Death where is thy sting! It has none. But life has.

Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.

Sagebrush is a very fair fuel, but as a vegetable it is a distinguished failure. Nothing can abide the taste of it but the jackass and his illegitimate child the mule.