Nature knows no indecencies; man invents them.

I had longed to be a butterfly, and I was one at last. I attended private parties in sumptuous evening dress, simpered and aired my graces like a born beau, and polkaed and schoisched with a step peculiar to myself - and the kangaroo.

You need not expect to get your book right the first time.

If science exterminates a disease which has been working for God, it is God that gets the credit and all the pulpits break into grateful advertising-raptures and call attention to how good he is. Yes, he has done it. Perhaps he waited a thousand years before doing it. They forget to say that he is the slowest mover in the universe, that his Eye That Never Sleeps, might as well, since it takes a century to see what any other eye can see in a week.

Public opinion is held in reverence. It settles everything. Some think it is the voice of God.

Thanksgiving day. Let us all give humble, hearty, and sincere thanks now, but the turkeys.

A lie can make it half way around the world before the truth has time to put its boots on.