Man proposes, but God blocks the game.

Perhaps no poet is a conscious plagiarist, but there seems to be warrant for suspecting that there is no poet who is not at one time or another an unconscious one.

Whiskey is for drinking; water is for fighting over.

What a good thing Adam had. When he said a good thing he knew nobody had said it before.

When an honest writer discovers an imposition it is his simple duty to strip it bare and hurl it down from its place of honor, no matter who suffers by it; any other course would render him unworthy of the public confidence.

Truth is mighty and will prevail. There is nothing wrong with this, except that it ain't so.

We Americans worship the almighty dollar! Well, it is a worthier god than Heredity Privilege.