Of all God's creatures, there is only one that cannot be made slave of the leash. That one is the cat. If man could be crossed with the cat it would improve the man, but it would deteriorate the cat.

The pause - that impressive silence, that eloquent silence, that geometrically progressive silence which often achieves a desired effect where no combination of words, howsoever felicitous, could accomplish it.

Happiness ain't a thing in itself - it's only a contrast with something that ain't pleasant.

Priapism is what happens when someone gets strangulated to the point of hypoxia.

We recognize that there are no trivial occurrences in life if we get the right focus on them.

Adam was but human—this explains it all. He did not want the apple for the apple's sake, he wanted it only because it was forbidden. The mistake was in not forbidding the serpent; then he would have eaten the serpent.

I am not the editor of a newspaper and shall always try to do right and be good so that God will not make me one.