In Austria an editor who can write well is valuable, but he is not likely to remain so unless he can handle a sabre with charm.

Wilson stopped and stood silent. Inattention dies a quick and sure death when a speaker does that.

We were surprised how closely the cuckoo imitated the clock-and yet, of course, it could never have heard a clock.

It is my heart-warmed and world-embracing Christmas hope and aspiration that all of us, the high, the low, the rich, the poor, the admired, the despised, the loved, the hated, the civilized, the savage (every man and brother of us all throughout the whole earth), may eventually be gathered together in a heaven of everlasting rest and peace and bliss, except the inventor of the telephone.

What a world of trouble those who never marry escape! There are many happy matches, it is true, and sometimes "my dear," and "my love" come from the heart; but what sensible bachelor, rejoicing in his freedom and years of discretion, will run the tremendous risk?

There isn't any way to libel the human race.

Darwin abolished special creations, contributed the Origin of Species and hitched all life together in one unbroken procession of Siamese Twins, the whole evolved by natural and orderly processes from one microscopic parent germ.