It's not the parts of the Bible I don't know that worries me...it's the parts that I do.

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

The community is eminently Portuguese - that is to say, it is slow, poor, shiftless, sleepy, and lazy.

Annihilation has no terrors for me, because I have already tried it before I was born -a hundred million years -and I have suffered more in an hour, in this life, than I remember to have suffered in the whole hundred million years put together. There was a peace, a serenity, an absence of all sense of responsibility, an absence of worry, an absence of care, grief, perplexity; and the presence of a deep content and unbroken satisfaction in that hundred million years of holiday which I look back upon with a tender longing and with a grateful desire to resume, when the opportunity comes.

Only kings, presidents, editors, and people with tapeworms have the right to use the editorial 'we.'

In early times some sufferer had to sit up with a toothache, and he put in the time inventing the German language.

Always obey your parents - when they are present.