The old man laughed loud and joyously, shook up the details of his anatomy from head to foot, and ended by saying that such a laugh was money in a man's pocket, because it cut down the doctor's bills like everything.

Data is like garbage. You'd better know what you are going to do with it before you collect it.

Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be.

Tom said to himself that it was not such a hollow world, after all. He had discovered a great law of human action, without knowing it -- namely, that in order to make a man or a boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to attain.

Anyone who can only think of one way to spell a word obviously lacks imagination.

To go abroad has something of the same sense that death brings. I am no longer of ye-what ye say of me is now of no consequence.

Supposing is good, but finding out is better.