Let us be grateful to Adam: he cut us out of the blessing of idleness and won for us the curse of labor.

Our Bible reveals to us the character of our god with minute and remorseless exactness... It is perhaps the most damnatory biography that exists in print anywhere. It makes Nero an angel of light and leading by contrast.

Whatever a man's age, he can reduce it several years by putting a bright-colored flower in his button-hole.

The air up there in the clouds is very pure and fine, bracing and delicious. And why shouldn't it be?--it is the same the angels breathe.

[On Dutch flat poetry]: It is too smooth and blubbery; it reads like butter-milk gurgling from a jug.

There are two reasons why anybody buys anything. The real reason, and the reason they give you.

Let us be grateful to Adam: he cut us out of the blessing of idleness and won for us the curse of labor.