Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.

What, sir, would the people of the earth be without woman? They would be scarce, sir, almighty scarce.

India is, the cradle of the human race, the birthplace of human speech, the mother of history, the grandmother of legend, and the great grand mother of tradition. our most valuable and most instructive materials in the history of man are treasured up in India only.

Patriot: the person who can holler the loudest without knowing what he is hollering about.

Man is without doubt the most interesting fool there is. He concedes that God made the angels immune from pain and death, and that he could have been similarly kind to man, but denies that he was under any moral obligation to do so.

The test of any good fiction is that you should care something for the characters; the good to succeed, the bad to fail. The trouble with most fiction is that you want them all to land in hell, together, as quickly as possible.

In America-as elsewhere-free speech is confined to the dead.