You need not expect to get your book right the first time. Go to work and revamp or rewrite it. God only exhibits his thunder and lightning at intervals, and so they always command attention. These are God's adjectives. You thunder and lightning too much; the reader ceases to get under the bed, by and by.

You take the lies out of him, and he'll shrink to the size of your hat; you take the malice out of him, and he'll disappear.

But the people cannot have wells, and so they take rain-water. Neither can they conveniently have cellars or graves, the town being built upon "made ground"; so they do without both, and few of the living complain, and none of the others.

I hope all of us may eventually be together in everlasting peace and bliss -- except the inventor of the #‎ telephone .

Just because you’re taught that something’s right and everyone believes it’s right, it don’t make it right.

Next you'd see a raft sliding by, away off yonder, and maybe a galoot on it chopping. . . you'd see the ax flash and come down-you don't hear nothing; you see the ax go up again, and by the time it's above the man's head then you hear the k'chunk!-it had took all that time to come over the water.

It is human to exaggerate the merits of the dead.