The existing phrasebooks are inadequate. They are well enough as far as they go, but when you fall down and skin your leg they don't tell you what to say.

It will take mind and memory months and possibly years to gather together the details, and thus learn and know the whole extent of the loss.

I can speak French but I cannot understand it.

It takes your enemy and your friend, working together, to hurt you to the heart: the one to slander you and the other to get the news to you.

Whoever has lived long enough to find out what life is, knows how deep a debt of gratitude we owe to Adam, the first great benefactor of our race. He brought death into the world.

He was such a good man that people hated to see him coming.

My father was a Saint Bernard, my mother was a Collie, but I am a Presbyterian.