A sincere compliment is always grateful to a lady, so long as you don't try to knock her down with it.

Men think they think upon the great political questions, and they do; but they think with their party, not independently; they read its literature, but not that of the other side

If man had created man, he would be ashamed of his performance.

The Germans have an inhuman way of cutting up their verbs. Now a verb has a hard time enough of it in this world when it's all together. It's downright inhuman to split it up. But that's just what those Germans do. They take part of a verb and put it down here, like a stake, and they take the other part of it and put it away over yonder like another stake, and between these two limits they just shovel in German. from "Disappearance of Literature

Barring that natural expression of villainy which we all have, the man looked honest enough.

The lightning there is peculiar; it is so convincing, that when it strikes a thing it doesn't leave enough of that thing behind for you to tell whether-Well, you'd think it was something valuable, and a Congressman had been there.

Cherimoya, the most delicious fruit known to men.