Truth is mighty and will prevail. There is nothing wrong with this, except that it ain't so.

The humorous story is American, the comic story is English, the witty story is French. The humorous story depends for its effect upon the manner of the telling;the comic and the witty story upon the matter.

If you would beseech a blessing upon yourself, beware! lest without intent you invoke a curse upon a neighbor at the same time.

The fact is, the king was a good deal more than a king, he was a man; and when a man is a man, you can't knock it out of him.

Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits.

To be vested with enormous authority is a fine thing; but to have the on-looking world consent to it is finer.

All emotion is involuntary when genuine.