Man - a figment of God's imagination.
There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist.
Few of us stand prosperity; another man's I mean.
A gentleman is someone who knows how to play the banjo and doesn't.
I was born with Halley's Comet and I expect to die upon its return
But the people cannot have wells, and so they take rain-water. Neither can they conveniently have cellars or graves, the town being built upon "made ground"; so they do without both, and few of the living complain, and none of the others.