Nothing seems to please a fly so much as to be taken for a currant; and if it can be baked in a cake and palmed off on the unwary, it dies happy.

The difference between fiction and nonfiction is that fiction must be absolutely believable.

You can never find a Christian who has acquired this valuable knowledge, this saving knowledge, by any process but the everlasting and all-sufficient 'people say.'

If you've got a nice fresh corpse, fetch him out!

Wit is the sudden marriage of ideas which before their union were not perceived to have any relation.

Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.

The difference between a Miracle and a Fact is exactly the difference between a mermaid and a seal.