But we are all insane, anyway ... The suicides seem to be the only sane people.

The North thinks it knows how to make corn bread, but this is a gross superstition. Perhaps no bread in the world is quite as good as Southern corn bread, and perhaps no bread in the world is quite as bad as the Northern imitation of it.

It is not a new thing for a thoroughly good and well-meaning preacher´s soft heart to run away with his soft head.

By his father he is English, by his mother he is Americanto my mind the blend which makes the perfect man.

By reading keep in a state of excited igorance, like a blind man in a house afire; flounder around, immensely but unintelligently interested; don't know how I got in and can't find the way out, but I'm having a booming time all to myself.Don't know what a Schelgesetzentwurf is, but I keep as excited over it and as worried about it as if it were my own child. I simply live on the Sch.; it is my daily bread. I wouldn't have the question settled for anything in the world.

Laughter without a tinge of philosophy is but a sneeze of humor. Genuine humor is replete with wisdom.

The ability to find solutions to life's challenges is what makes us grow as a person.