There are several kinds of stories, but only one difficult kind-the humorous.

There are no people who are quite so vulgar as the over-refined.

A good legible label is usually worth, for information, a ton of significant attitude and expression in a historical picture.

Every generalization is dangerous, especially this one.

Start it at no particular time of your life; wander at your free will all over your life; talk only about the thing which interests you for the moment; drop it the moment its interest threatens to pale.

In my schoolboy days I had no aversion to slavery. I was not aware there was anything wrong about it. No-one arraigned it in my hearing; the local papers said nothing against it; the local pulpit taught us that God approved it, that it was a holy thing, and that the doubter need only look in the Bible if he wished to settle his mind.

Let us swear while we may, for in heaven it will not be allowed