One day man by the slow processes of evolution shall develop into something really fine and high - some billions of years hence, say.

I am able to say that while I am not ruggedly well, I am not ill enough to excite an undertaker.

I don't give a damn for a man that can only spell a word one way.

If you send a damned fool to St. Louis, and you don't tell them he's a damned fool, they'll never find out.

Teaching is like trying to hold 35 corks underwater at once.

The work that is really a man's own work is play and not work at all.

I notice that you use plain, simple language, short words and brief sentences. That is the way to write English - it is the modern way and the best way. Stick to it; don't let fluff and flowers and verbosity creep in.