High and fine literature is wine, and mine is only water; but everybody likes water.

When one has tasted watermelons, one knows what angels eat. It was not a Southern watermelon that Eve took; we know it because she repented.

In God We Trust. I don't believe it would sound any better if it were true.

They did not know it was impossible so they did it

Heaven goes by favor. If it went by merit, you would stay out and your dog would go in.

You can't keep a juvenile moral institution alive on two displays of its sash per year.

...the person that had took a bull by the tail once had learnt sixty or seventy times as much as a person that hadn't, and said a person that started in to carry a cat home by the tail was getting knowledge that was always going to be useful to him, and warn't ever going to grow dim or doubtful. Chances are, he isn't likely to carry the cat that way again, either. But if he wants to, I say let him!