There ain't nothing more to write about and I'm rotten glad of it, because if I'd know'd what trouble it was to make a book, I wouldn't a tackled it.

You need not expect to get your book right the first time.

Love is madness, if thwarted it develops fast.

whenever the literary german dives into a sentence, this is the last you are going to see of him till he emerges on the other side of his atlantic with his verb in his mouth.

God was left out of the Constitution but was furnished a front seat on the coins of the country.

Carlyle said 'a lie cannot live.' It shows that he did not know how to tell them.

Blasphemy? No, it is not blashphemy. If God is as vast as that, he is above blasphemy; if he is as little as that, He is beneath it.