There was things which he stretched, but mainly he told the truth.

I can always tell which is the front end of a horse, but beyond that, my art is not above the ordinary.

Our opinions do not really blossom into fruition until we have expressed them to someone else.

God was left out of the Constitution but was furnished a front seat on the coins of the country.

I am not given to exaggeration, and when I say a thing I mean it.

I notice that you use plain, simple language, short words and brief sentences. That is the way to write English―it is the modern way and the best way. Stick to it; don't let fluff and flowers and verbosity creep in. When you catch an adjective, kill it. No, I don't mean utterly, but kill most of them―then the rest will be valuable. They weaken when they are close together. They give strength when they are wide apart. An adjective habit, or a wordy, diffuse, flowery habit, once fastened upon a person, is as hard to get rid of as any other vice.

I could never learn to like her, except on a raft at sea with no other provisions in sight.