The spirit of wrath - not the words - is the sin; and the spirit of wrath is cursing. We begin to swear before we can talk.

God rewards gamblers and fools. The crucial thing, when you win, is knowing which you were.

We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it and stop there lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove lid. She will never sit down on a hot stove lid again and that is well but also she will never sit down on a cold one anymore.

I'm merely running some errands. This is now off the record.

The man who sets out to carry a cat by its tail learns something that will always be useful and which never will grow dim or doubtful.

It used to take me all vacation to grow a new hide in place of the one they flogged off me during school term.

Strange is the man who practices his religion.