Slang in a woman's mouth is not obscene, it only sounds so.

Information appears to stew out of me naturally, like the precious otter of roses out of the otter.

A country without a patent office and good patent laws is just a crab, and can't travel any way but sideways and backways.

Let us live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.

...there isn't often anything in Wagner opera that one would call by such a violent name as acting.

As an example to others, and not that I care for moderation myself, it has always been my rule never to smoke when asleep, and never to refrain from smoking when awake.

Crowds stand around all day long and criticise that bridge, and find fault with it, and tell with unlimited frankness how it ought to have been planned, and how they would have built it had the city granted them the $14,000 it cost. It is really refreshing to hang around these and listen to them. A foreigner would come to the conclusion that all America was composed of inspired professional bridge builders.