Where was the use, originally, in rushing this whole globe through in six days? It is likely that if more time had been taken in the first place, the world would have been made right, and this ceaseless improving and repairing would not be necessary now. But if you hurry a world or a house, you are nearly sure to find out by and by that you have left out a towhead, or a broom-closet, or some other little convenience, here and there, which has got to be supplied, no matter how much expense or vexation it may cost.

Circumstance - which moves by laws of its own, regardless of parties and policies, and whose decrees are final and must be obeyed by all - and will be

A German joke is no laughing matter.

Prohibition only drives drunkenness behind doors and into dark places, and does not cure it or even diminish it.

The unspoken word is capital. We can invest it or we can squander it.

One of life's most over-valued pleasures is sexual intercourse; of one of life's least appreciated pleasures in defecation.

They did not know it was impossible so they did it