Adam and Eve had many advantages, but the principal one was that they escaped teething.

That is the way of the scientist. He will spend thirty years in building up a mountain range of facts with the intent to prove a certain theory; then he is so happy with his achievement that as a rule he overlooks the main chief fact of all-that all his accumulation proves an entirely different thing.

I do not like an injurious lie, except when it injures somebody else.

Information appears to stew out of me naturally, like the precious otter of roses out of the otter.

Such is luck! And such the treatment which honest, good perservance gets so often at the hands of unfair and malicious Nature!

Life is but a dream, a grotesque and foolish dream.

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.