Vote: The only commodity that is peddleable without a license.

Even the clearest and most perfect circumstantial evidence is likely to be at fault, after all, and therefore ought to be received with great caution. Take the case of any pencil, sharpened by any woman; if you have witnesses, you will find she did it with a knife; but if you take simply the aspect of the pencil, you will say that she did it with her teeth.

Begin with the determination to succeed and the work is half done already.

I was a-trembling, because I'd got to decide, forever, betwixt two things, and I knowed it.

He has been a doctor a year now and has had two patients - no, three, I think - yes, it was three; I attended their funerals.

But we love the Old Travelers. We love to hear them prate and drivel and lie.

The humorous story is American, the comic story is English, the witty story is French. The humorous story depends for its effect upon the manner of the telling;the comic and the witty story upon the matter.