It used to be a good hotel, but that proves nothing - I used to be a good boy.

In early times some sufferer had to sit up with a toothache, and he put in the time inventing the German language.

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.

Simplified spelling is all right, but, like chastity, you can carry it too far.

A little starvation can really do more for the average sick man than can the best medicines and the best doctors.

Why do you sit there looking like an envelope without any address on it?

The man who is a pessimist before 48 knows too much; if he is an optimist after it, he knows too little.