whenever the literary german dives into a sentence, this is the last you are going to see of him till he emerges on the other side of his atlantic with his verb in his mouth.

The only people who should use the possessive 'we' are kings, newspaper editors, and persons with tapeworms.

But it was ever thus, all through my life: whenever I have diverged from custom and principle and uttered a truth, the rule has been that the hearer hadn't strength of mind enough to believe it.

Stripping away the irrational, the illogical, and the impossible, I am left with atheism. I can live with that.

They did not know it was impossible so they did it

Indeed, none but the Deity can tell what is good luck and what is bad before the returns are all in.

You want to be very careful about lying; otherwise you are nearly sure to get caught.