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

Experience, the only logic sure to convince a diseased imagination and restore it to rugged health.

It is strange the way the ignorant and inexperienced so often and so undeservedly succeed when the informed and the experienced fail.

The educated Southerner has no use for an 'r', except at the beginning of a word.

It was enough to make a body ashamed of the human race.

Some civilized women would lose half their charm without dress and some would lose all of it.

But who prays for Satan? Who, in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most?