If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.

A man with a hump-backed uncle mustn't make fun of another man's cross-eyed aunt

A sincere compliment is always grateful to a lady, so long as you don't try to knock her down with it.

The catfish is Plenty good enough fish for anyone

Now I can only pray that there may be a God -- and a heaven -- or something better.

Man is the Reasoning Animal. Such is the claim. I think it is open to dispute. Indeed, my experiments have proven to me that he is the Unreasoning Animal... In truth, man is incurably foolish. Simple things which the other animals easily learn, he is incapable of learning. Among my experiments was this. In an hour I taught a cat and a dog to be friends. I put them in a cage. In another hour I taught them to be friends with a rabbit. In the course of two days I was able to add a fox, a goose, a squirrel and some doves. Finally a monkey. They lived together in peace; even affectionately.

There is this trouble about special providences namely, there is so often a doubt as to which party was intended to be the beneficiary. In the case of the children, the bears, and the prophet, the bears got more real satisfaction out of the episode than the prophet did, because they got the children.