In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards.
No one can write perfect English and keep it up through a stretch of ten chapters. It has never been done.
Suddenly the nickel-clad horse takes the bit in its mouth and goes slanting for the curbstone defying all prayers and all your powers to change its mind - your heart stands still, your breath hangs fire, your legs forget to work.
I've lived through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened.
If all the fools in this world should die, lordly God how lonely I should be.
Time and tide wait for no man. A pompous and self-satisfied proverb, and was true for a billion years; but in our day of electric wires and water-ballast we turn it around: Man waits not for time nor tide.