Thanksgiving day. Let us all give humble, hearty, and sincere thanks now, but the turkeys.

That optimist of yours is always ready to turn hell's backyard into a play-ground.

Experience teaches us only one thing at a time - and hardly that, in my case.

When the human race has once acquired a superstition, nothing short of death is ever likely to remove it.

The rain ...falls upon the just and the unjust alike; a thing which would not happen if I were superintending the rain's affairs. No, I would rain softly and sweetly on the just, but if I caught a sample of the unjust outdoors, I would drown him.

Even popularity can be overdone. In Rome, along at first, you are full of regrets that Michelangelo died; but by and by, you only regret that you didn't see him do it.

...mastery of the art and spirit of the Germanic language enables a man to travel all day in one sentence without changing cars.