It's awful undermining to the intellect, German is; you want to take it in small doses, or first you know your brains all run together, and you feel them flapping around in your head same as so much drawn butter.

Humor is the good natured side of a truth.

We get our morals from books. I didn't get mine from books, but I know that morals do come from books- theoretically at least.

He is now rising from affluence to poverty.

Let us consider that we are all insane. It will explain us to each other. It will unriddle many riddles

A powerful agent is the right word: it lights the reader's way and makes it plain.

God pours out love upon all with a lavish hand -- but He reserves vengeance for His very own.