When you feel like tellin a feller to go to the devil - tell him to go to Chicago - it'll anser every purpose, and is perhaps, a leetle more expensive.

Don't explain your author, read him right and he explains himself.

The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter.

The xmas holidays have this high value: that they remind Forgetters of the Forgotten, & repair damaged relationships.

Dates are hard to remember because they consist of figures; figures are monotonously unstriking in appearance, and they don't take hold, they form no pictures, and so they give the eye no chance to help. Pictures are the thing. Pictures can make dates stick.

I do not like an injurious lie, except when it injures somebody else.

Adam was but human—this explains it all. He did not want the apple for the apple's sake, he wanted it only because it was forbidden. The mistake was in not forbidding the serpent; then he would have eaten the serpent.