I would much prefer to suffer from the clean incision of an honest lancet than from a sweetened poison.

Now and then we had a hope that if we lived and were good, God would permit us to be pirates.

Modesty died when clothes were born.

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.

[I] shall never use profanity except in discussing house rent and taxes. Indeed, upon second thought, I will not use it then, for it is unchristian, inelegant, and degrading--though to speak truly I do not see how house rent and taxes are going to be discussed worth a cent without it.

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.

Ideally a book would have no order to it, and the reader would have to discover his own.