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

I can live for two months on a good compliment.

Which is him?" The grammar was faulty, maybe, but we could not know, then, that it would go in a book someday.

Do something everyday that you don't want to do.

When the time comes that a man has had his dinner, then the true man comes to the surface

If we should deal out justice only, in this world, who would escape? No, it is better to be generous, and in the end more profitable, for it gains gratitude for us, and love.

The Germans have an inhuman way of cutting up their verbs. Now a verb has a hard time enough of it in this world when it's all together. It's downright inhuman to split it up. But that's just what those Germans do. They take part of a verb and put it down here, like a stake, and they take the other part of it and put it away over yonder like another stake, and between these two limits they just shovel in German. from "Disappearance of Literature