The partitions of the houses were so thin we could hear the women occupants of adjoining rooms changing their minds.

But old fools is the biggest fools there is.

Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.

Every man is a moon; he has a side no one sees.

The Bible is full of interest. It has noble poetry in it; and some clever fables; and some blood-drenched history; and some good morals; and a wealth of obscenity; and upwards of a thousand lies. This Bible is built mainly out of fragments of older Bibles that had their day and crumbled to ruin. So it noticeably lacks in originality, necessarily. Its three or four most imposing and impressive events all happened in earlier Bibles; there are only two new things in it: hell, for one, and that singular heaven I have told you about.

There's something in it when a body like the widow or the parson prays, but it don't work for me, and I reckon it don't work for only just the right kind.

The first time a student realizes that a little learning is a dangerous thing is when he brings home a poor report card.