There is no such thing as the Queen's English. The property has gone into the hands of a joint stock company and we own the bulk of the shares!

Agassiz does recommend authors to eat fish, because the phosphorus in it makes brains. But I cannot help you to a decision about the amount you need to eat. Perhaps a couple of whales would be enough.

Love is not a product of reasonings and statistics. It just comes-none knows whence-and cannot explain itself.

An uneasy conscience is a hair in the mouth.

Let your joy be unconfined!

I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it.

Well, my book is written-let it go. But if it were only to write over again there wouldn't be so many things left out. They burn in me; and they keep multiplying; but now they can't ever be said. And besides, they would require a library-and a pen warmed up in hell.