Often the surest way to convey misinformation is to tell the strict truth.

The cayote is a living, breathing allegory of Want. He is always hungry. He is always poor, out of luck and friendless. The meanest creatures despise him, and even the fleas would desert him for a velocipede.

It is a shameful thing to insult a child.

It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.

New Year's is a harmless annual institution, of no particular use to anybody save as a scapegoat for promiscuous drunks, and friendly calls and humbug resolutions.

Information appears to stew out of me naturally, like the precious otter of roses out of the otter.

The Church has opposed every innovation and discovery from the day of Galileo down to our own time, when the use of anesthetics in childbirth was regarded as a sin because it avoided the biblical curse pronounced against Eve.