It may have happened, it may not have happened but it could have happened.

Every man is in his own person the whole human race without a detail lacking....I knew I should not find in any philosophy a single thought which had not passed through my own head, nor a single thought which had not passed through the heads of millions and millions of men before I was born.

In India, 'cold weather' is merely a conventional phrase and has come into use through the necessity of having some way to distinguish between weather which will melt a brass door-knob and weather which will only make it mushy.

The reason why truth is so much stranger than fiction is that there is no requirement for it to be consistent.

He was such a good man that people hated to see him coming.

If to be interesting is to be uncommonplace, it is becoming a question, with me, if there are any commonplace people

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'.