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

Switzerland is simply a large, lumpy, solid rock with a thin skin of grass stretched over it.

The difference between fiction and nonfiction is that fiction must be absolutely believable.

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.

It is a dear and lovely disposition, and a most valuable one, that can brush away indignities and discourtesies and seek and find the pleasanter features of an experience.

The Church has opposed every innovation and discovery from the day of Galileo down to our own time, when the use of anesthetics in childbirth was regarded as a sin because it avoided the biblical curse pronounced against Eve.

Strange is the man who practices his religion.