The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don't want, drink what you don't like, and do what you'd rather not.

The cayote is a living, breathing allegory of Want. He is always hungry. He is always poor, out of luck and friendless. The meanest creatures despise him, and even the fleas would desert him for a velocipede.

Slang in a woman's mouth is not obscene, it only sounds so.

To gnaw on is human, towards digest, divine.

Let us draw the curtain of charity over the rest of this scene

The slowness of one section of the world about adopting the valuable ideas of another section of it is a curious thing and unaccountable.

We find not much in ourselves to admire, we are always privately wanting to be like somebody else. If everybody was satisfied with himself, there would be no heroes