No God and no religion can survive ridicule. No political church, no nobility, no royalty or other fraud, can face ridicule in a fair field, and live.

I felt so lonesome I most wished I was dead. The stars were shining, and the leaves rustled in the woods ever so mournful; and I heard an owl, away off, who-whooing about somebody that was dead, and a whippowill and a dog crying about somebody that was going to die.

There isn't a Parallel of Latitude but thinks it would have been the Equator if it had had its rights.

Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be.

In India, 'cold weather' is merely a conventional phrase and has come into use through the necessity of having some way to distinguish between weather which will melt a brass door-knob and weather which will only make it mushy.

After my marriage she edited everything I wrote. And what is more, she not only edited my works, she edited me.

Etiquette requires us to admire the human race.