The good Lord didn't create anything without a purpose, but the fly comes close.
Nothing so focuses the mind as the prospect of being hanged.
An American has not seen the United States until he has seen Mardi-Gras in New Orleans.
Prediction is difficult- particularly when it involves the future.
Compliments make me vain: & when I am vain, I am insolent & overbearing. It is a pity, too, because I love compliments. I love them even when they are not so. My child, I can live on a good compliment two weeks with nothing else to eat.
Christianity will doubtless still survive in the earth ten centuries hence- stuffed and in a museum.