The bane of Americans is overwork-and the ruin of any work is a divided interest. Concentrate-concentrate. One thing at a time.

The water is clearer than the air, and the air is the air that angels breathe.

I suppose, just as an honest man in politics shines more than he would elsewhere.

I have thought many times since that if poets when they get discouraged would blow their brains out, they could write very much better when they got well.

There has been only one Christian. They caught and curcified him-early.

O Lord our God, help us to tear their soldiers to bloody shreds with our shells; help us to cover their smiling fields with the pale forms of their patriot dead; help us to drown the thunder of the guns with the shrieks of their wounded, writhing in pain.

I pity the fellow who has to create a dialect or paraphrase the dictionary to get laughs. I can't spell, but I have never stooped to spell cat with a 'k' to get at your funny bone. I love a drink, but I never encouraged drunkenness by harping on its alleged funny side.