Man is the only creature who has a nasty mind.

Yes - en I's rich now, come to look at it. I owns myself, en I's wuth eight hund'd dollars. I wisht I had de money, I wouldn' want no mo'.

To place man properly at the present time, he stands somewhere between the angels and the French.

The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.

...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!

We often feel sad in the presence of music without words; and often more than that in the presence of music without music.

It is at our mother's knee that we acquire our noblest and truest and highest ideals.