Herschel removed the speckled tent-roof from the world and exposed the immeasurable deeps of space, dim-flecked with fleets of colossal suns sailing their billion-leagued remoteness.

The devil's aversion to holy water is a light matter compared with a despots dread of a newspaper that laughs.

Jim said that bees won't sting idiots, but I didn't believe that, because I tried them lots of times myself and they wouldn't sting me.

You can't break a bad habit by throwing it out the window. You've got to walk it slowly down the stairs.

Our best built certainties are but sand-houses and subject to damage from any wind of doubt that blows

The very "marks" on the bottom of a piece of rare crockery are able to throw me into a gibbering ecstasy.

All generalizations are false, including this one.