It is a mistake that there is no bath that will cure people's manners, but drowning would help.

... the English alphabet is pure insanity..., It can hardly spell any word in the language with any degree of certainty.

...the circumstances and the atmosphere always have so much to do in directing a conversation, especially a German conversation, which is only a kind of an insurrection, anyway.

God puts something good and loveable in every man His hands create.

Now and then we had a hope that if we lived and were good, God would permit us to be pirates.

Even popularity can be overdone. In Rome, along at first, you are full of regrets that Michelangelo died; but by and by, you only regret that you didn't see him do it.

I wonder if God created man because He was disappointed with the monkey.