A "classic" is a book that everybody praises but nobody has read

Benaras is older than history, older than tradition, older even than legend, and looks twice as old as all of them put together!

The true Southern watermelon is a boon apart, and not to be mentioned with commoner things. It is chief of this world'd luxuries, king by grace of God over all the fruits of the earth. When one has tasted it, he knows what the angels eat. It was not a Southern watermelon that Eve took: we know it because she repented.

Oh Death where is thy sting! It has none. But life has.

George Washington, as a boy, was ignorant of the commonest accomplishments of youth. He could not even lie.

Only one thing is impossible for God: To find any sense in any copyright law on the planet.

Man is the only animal that deals in that atrocity of atrocities War. He is the only one that gathers his brethren about him and goes forth in cold blood and calm pulse to exterminate his kind. He is the only animal that for sordid wages will march out... and help to slaughter strangers of his own species who have done him no harm and with whom he has no quarrel.... And in the intervals between campaigns he washes the blood off his hands and works for the universal brotherhood of man with his mouth.