Write without pay until somebody offers to pay.

It is sound judgment to put on a bold face and play your hand for a hundred times what it is worth; forty-nine times out of fifty nobody dares to call it, and you roll in the chips.

...ignorant as the unborne babe! ignorant as unborn twins!

Of all the animals, man is the only one that is cruel. He is the only one that inflicts pain for the pleasure of doing it.

The old man laughed loud and joyously, shook up the details of his anatomy from head to foot, and ended by saying that such a laugh was money in a man's pocket, because it cut down the doctor's bills like everything.

Benaras is older than history, older than tradition, older even than legend, and looks twice as old as all of them put together!

I have learned that human existence is essentially tragic. It is only the love of God, disclosed and enacted in Christ, that redeems the human tragedy and makes it tolerable. No, more than tolerable. Wonderful.