There has been much tragedy in my life; at least half of it actually happened.
It's awful undermining to the intellect, German is; you want to take it in small doses, or first you know your brains all run together, and you feel them flapping around in your head same as so much drawn butter.
We Americans... bear the ark of liberties of the world.
It is better to be a young June-bug than an old bird of paradise.
It’s not the good that die young, it’s the lucky.
There are no standards of taste in wine... Each man's own taste is the standard, and a majority vote cannot decide for him or in any slightest degree affect the supremacy of his own standard.