Satan (impatiently) to Newcomer: The trouble with you Chicago people is, that you think you are the best people down here; whereas you are merely the most numerous.

For England must not fall: it would mean an inundation of Russian & German political degradations which would envelop the globe & steep it in a sort of Middle-Age night & slaverly which would last till Christ comes again - which I hope he will not do; he made trouble enough before.

Always tell the truth; then you don't have to remember anything

Such is luck! And such the treatment which honest, good perservance gets so often at the hands of unfair and malicious Nature!

A banquet is probably the most fatiguing thing in the world except ditchdigging. It is the insanest of all recreations. The inventor of it overlooked no detail that could furnish weariness, distress, harassment, and acute and long-sustained misery of mind and body.

There is a charm about the forbidden that makes it unspeakably desirable.

To go abroad has something of the same sense that death brings. I am no longer of ye-what ye say of me is now of no consequence.