If smoking cigars is not permitted in heaven, I won''t go.

Work and play are words used to describe the same thing under differing conditions.

Honest poverty is a gem that even a king might be proud to call his own - but I wish to sell out

Habit is habit, and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed down-stairs one step at a time.

How superbly brave is the Englishman in the presence of the awfulest forms of danger and death; and how abject in the presence of any and all forms of hereditary rank.

It is the Creator´s Grand Army, and he is the Commander-in-Chief... With these facts before you, now try to guess man´s chiefest pet name for this ferocious Commander-in-Chief? I will save you the trouble but you must not laugh. It is Our Father in Heaven.

I know the look of an apple that is roasting and sizzling on the hearth on a winter's evening, and I know the comfort that comes of eating it hot, along with some sugar and a drench of cream... I know how the nuts taken in conjunction with winter apples, cider, and doughnuts, make old people's tales and old jokes sound fresh and crisp and enchanting.