All right, then, I'll go to hell.

Whoever has lived long enough to find out what life is, knows how deep a debt of gratitude we owe to Adam, the first great benefactor of our race. He brought death into the world.

But the elastic heart of youth cannot be compressed into one constrained shape long at a time.

Most writers regard the truth as their most valuable possession, and therefore are most economical in its use.

...mastery of the art and spirit of the Germanic language enables a man to travel all day in one sentence without changing cars.

In religion and politics, people's belief's and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second hand, and without examination

The true Southern watermelon is a boon apart, and not to be mentioned with commoner things. It is chief of this world'd luxuries, king by grace of God over all the fruits of the earth. When one has tasted it, he knows what the angels eat. It was not a Southern watermelon that Eve took: we know it because she repented.