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

I have been studying the traits and dispositions of the "lower animals" (so called) and contrasting them with the traits and dispositions of man. I find the result humiliating to me.

They all laid their heads together like as many lawyers when they are gettin' ready to prove that a man's heirs ain't got any right to his property.

It is at our mother's knee that we acquire our noblest and truest and highest ideals.

It is human to exaggerate the merits of the dead.

I knew a man who grabbed a cat by the tail and learned forty percent more about cats than the man who didn't.

A powerful agent is the right word. Whenever we come upon one of those intensely right words in a book or newspaper the resulting effect is physical as well as spiritual, and electrically prompt.