It is easy to see that the inventor of the heaven did not originate the idea, but copied it from the show-ceremonies of some sorry little sovereign State up in the back settlements of the Orient somewhere.

There is no humor in heaven.

In a museum in Havana, there are two skulls of Christopher Columbus, one when he was a boy and one when he was a man

That's just the way: a person does a low-down thing, and then he don't want to take no consequences of it. Thinks as long as he can hide it, it ain't no disgrace.

Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness.

The old man laughed loud and joyously, shook up the details of his anatomy from head to foot, and ended by saying that such a laugh was money in a man's pocket, because it cut down the doctor's bills like everything.

Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.