If there wasn't anything to find out, it would be dull. Even trying to find out and not finding out is just as interesting as trying to find out and finding out; and I don't know but more so.

Always tell the truth; then you don't have to remember anything

isn't so astonishing, the number of things that I can remember, as the number of things I can remember that aren't so.

All people have had ill luck, but Jairus's daughter and Lazarus had the worst.

No sane man can be happy, for to him life is real, and he sees what a fearful thing it is.

Name the greatest of all inventors. Accident.

A mighty porterhouse steak an inch and a half thick, hot and sputtering from the griddle; dusted with fragrant pepper; enriched with little melting bits of butter of the most impeachable freshness and genuineness; the precious juices of the meat trickling out and joining the gravy, archipelagoed with mushrooms; a township or two of tender, yellowish fat gracing an out-lying district of this ample county of beefsteak; the long white bone which divides the sirloin from the tenderloin still in its place.