Wherefore, I beseech you let the dog and the onions and these people of the strange and godless names work out their several salvations from their piteous and wonderful difficulties without help of mine, for indeed their trouble is sufficient as it is, whereas an I tried to help I should but damage their cause the more and yet mayhap not live myself to see the desolation wrought.

It may have happened, it may not have happened but it could have happened.

Those people.... early stricken of God, intellectually - the departmental interpreters of the laws in Washington... can always be depended on to take any reasonably good law and interpret the common sense all out of it.

Ignorant people think it is the noise which fighting cats make that is so aggravating, but it ain't so; it is the sickening grammar that they use.

I have never seen what to me seemed an atom of proof that there is a future life. And yet-I am inclined to expect one.

Except a person be part coward, it is not a compliment to say he is brave.

His ignorance covers the world like a blanket, and there's scarcely a hole in it anywhere.