Priapism is what happens when someone gets strangulated to the point of hypoxia.

Epitaphs are cheap, and they do a poor chap a world of good after he is dead, especially if he had hard luck while he was alive. I wish they were used more.

If your only tool is a hammer, everything starts to look like a nail.

Do not complain about growing old. It is a privilege denied to many.

Often the surest way to convey misinformation is to tell the strict truth.

I am content to be a bric-a-bracker and a Ceramiker.

The Germans have an inhuman way of cutting up their verbs. Now a verb has a hard time enough of it in this world when it's all together. It's downright inhuman to split it up. But that's just what those Germans do. They take part of a verb and put it down here, like a stake, and they take the other part of it and put it away over yonder like another stake, and between these two limits they just shovel in German. from "Disappearance of Literature