Therein lies the defect of revenge: it's all in the anticipation; the thing itself is a pain, not a pleasure; at least the pain is the biggest end of it.

You can tell German wine from vinegar by the label.

God's noblest work. Man who found it out? Man.

We do not get ice-cream every where, and so, when we do, we are apt to dissipate to excess.

The human race consists of the damned and the ought-to-be damned.

You can't pray a lie -- I found that out.

The critic's symbol should be the tumble-bug: he deposits his egg in somebody else's dung, otherwise he could not hatch it.