We may not doubt that society in heaven consists mainly of undesirable persons.

All say, ‘how hard it is that we have to die’ -- a strange complaint to come from the mouths of those who have had to live.

How empty is theory in the presence of fact!

That is a simple rule, and easy to remember. When I, a thoughtful and unblessed Presbyterian, examine the Koran, I know that beyond any question every Mohammedan is insane; not in all things, but in religious matters.

I can always tell which is the front end of a horse, but beyond that, my art is not above the ordinary.

Let us guess that whenever we read a sentence & like it, we unconsciously store it away in our model-chamber; & it goes, with the myriad of its fellows, to the building, brick by brick, of the eventual edifice which we call our style.

I've never let my school interfere with my education.