In German, a young lady has no sex, but a turnip has

Geniuses are people who dash off weird, wild, incomprehensible poems with astonishing facility, & then go & get booming drunk & sleep in the gutter. Genius elevates a man to ineffable speres [sic] far above the vulgar world, & fills his soul with a regal contempt for the gross & sordid things of earth. It is probably on account of this that people who have genius do not pay their board, as a general thing.

First catch your Boer, then kick him.

Christianity will doubtless still survive in the earth ten centuries hence- stuffed and in a museum.

Death is the starlit strip between the companionship of yesterday and the reunion of tomorrow.

But we love the Old Travelers. We love to hear them prate and drivel and lie.

In America-as elsewhere-free speech is confined to the dead.