I can't do no literary work for the rest of this year because I'm meditating another lawsuit and looking around for a defendant.

The way it is now, the asylums can hold the sane people, but if we tried to shut up the insane we should run out of building materials.

Noise proves nothing. Often a hen who has merely laid an egg cackles as if she laid an asteroid.

His head was an hour-glass; it could stow an idea, but it had to do it a grain at a time, not the whole idea at once.

There was never yet an uninteresting life. Such a thing is an impossibility. Inside of the dullest exterior there is a drama, a comedy, and a tragedy.

Darwin abolished special creations, contributed the Origin of Species and hitched all life together in one unbroken procession of Siamese Twins, the whole evolved by natural and orderly processes from one microscopic parent germ.

I can speak French but I cannot understand it.