I don't want my girl to be so skinny she can knife me with her knee.

Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be.

Let us not be too particular; it is better to have old secondhand diamonds than none at all.

Grown people everywhere are always likely to cling to the religion they were brought up in.

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

S'pose a man was to come to you and say Pollyvoo-franzy - what would you think?

It is just like man's vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions.