Only one thing is impossible for God: To find any sense in any copyright law on the planet.

The choir always tittered and whispered all through the service. There was once a church choir that was not ill-bred, but I have forgotten where it was.

It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.

...the circumstances and the atmosphere always have so much to do in directing a conversation, especially a German conversation, which is only a kind of an insurrection, anyway.

Shut the door not that it lets in the cold but that it lets out the coziness.

No one can write perfect English and keep it up through a stretch of ten chapters. It has never been done.

A person who has a cat by the tail knows a whole lot more about cats than someone who has just read about them.