Perfect grammar - persistent, continuous, sustained - is the fourth dimension, so to speak; many have sought it, but none has found it.

A sin takes on a new and real terror when there seems a chance that it is going to be found out.

...the person that had took a bull by the tail once had learnt sixty or seventy times as much as a person that hadn't, and said a person that started in to carry a cat home by the tail was getting knowledge that was always going to be useful to him, and warn't ever going to grow dim or doubtful. Chances are, he isn't likely to carry the cat that way again, either. But if he wants to, I say let him!

Comedy keeps the heart sweet; but we all know that there is wholesome refreshment for both mind and heart in an occasional climb among the pomps of the intellectual snow-summits built by Shakespeare and those others.

Hain't we got all the fools in town on our side? And hain't that a big enough majority in any town?

I begin to see that a man's got to be in his own heaven to be happy.

I told you this would happen. But, no, you had to go for the buffet, didn't you?