As to the adjective: when in doubt, strike it out.

There are three kinds of liars: liars, damned liars, and statisticians

There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact.

When you feel like tellin a feller to go to the devil - tell him to go to Chicago - it'll anser every purpose, and is perhaps, a leetle more expensive.

You should never trust a man who has only one way to spell a word.

Of the 417 commandments, only a single one of the 417 has found ministerial obedience; multiply and replenish the earth. To it sinner & saint, scholar & ignoramus, Christian & savage are alike loyal.

It is impossible that a genius - at least a literary genius - can ever be discovered by his intimates; they are so close to him that he is out of focus to them and they can't get at his proportions; they can't perceive that there is any considerable difference between his bulk and their own.