Sufficient unto the day is one baby. As long as you are in your right mind don't you ever pray for twins. Twins amount to a permanent riot; and there ain't any real difference between triplets and a insurrection. - The Babies speech 1879

To say a compliment well is a high art and few possess it.

This editor is a critic. He has pulled out his carving-knife and his tomahawk and is starting after a book which he is going to have for breakfast.

There's something in it when a body like the widow or the parson prays, but it don't work for me, and I reckon it don't work for only just the right kind.

The Christian's Bible is a drug store. Its contents remain the same, but the medical practice changes.

The joy of killing! the joy of seeing killing done - these are traits of the human race at large.

They say that you can't live by bread alone, but I can live on compliments.