This is the only sane clerical the earthquake has exposed to view yet.

Every time I read a Jane Austen novel, I feel like a bartender at the gates of heaven.

A dollar picked up in the road is more satisfaction to you than the ninety-and -nine which you had to work for, and money won at faro or in stock snuggles into your heart in the same way.

A gentleman is someone who knows how to play the banjo and doesn't.

Switzerland is simply a large, lumpy, solid rock with a thin skin of grass stretched over it.

I wish I could make him understand that a loving good heart is riches enough, and that without it intellect is poverty.

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.