Anybody can have ideas-the difficulty is to express them without squandering a quire of paper on an idea that ought to be reduced to one glittering paragraph.

The very "marks" on the bottom of a piece of rare crockery are able to throw me into a gibbering ecstasy.

Man is kind enough when he is not excited by religion

Words are only painted fire; a look is the fire itself.

Persons attempting to find a motive in this narrative will be prosecuted; persons attempting to find a moral in it will be banished; persons attempting to find a plot in it will be shot. BY ORDER OF THE AUTHOR per G.G., CHIEF OF ORDNANCE

Can it be possible that the painters make John the Baptist a Spaniard in Madrid and an Irishman in Dublin?

Hain't we got all the fools in town on our side? And hain't that a big enough majority in any town?