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!

Creed and opinion change with time, and their symbols perish; but Literature and its temples are sacred to all creeds and inviolate.

To place man properly at the present time, he stands somewhere between the angels and the French.

The reason most people don't go to church is because they've already been.

Heaven knows insanity was disreputable enough, long ago; but now that the lawyers have got to cutting every gallows rope and picking every prison lock with it, it is become a sneaking villainy that ought to hang and keep on hanging its sudden possessors until evil-doers should conclude that the safest plan was to never claim to have it until they came by it legitimately. The very calibre of the people the lawyers most frequently try to save by the insanity subterfuge ought to laugh the plea out of the courts, one would think.

That which was hard to endure is sweet to remember.

Of all the animals, man is the only one that is cruel. He is the only one that inflicts pain for the pleasure of doing it.