The radical of one century is the conservative of the next. The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out, the conservative adopt.

The Germans have an inhuman way of cutting up their verbs. Now a verb has a hard time enough of it in this world when it's all together. It's downright inhuman to split it up. But that's just what those Germans do. They take part of a verb and put it down here, like a stake, and they take the other part of it and put it away over yonder like another stake, and between these two limits they just shovel in German. from "Disappearance of Literature

Out of the unconscious lips of babes and sucklings are we satirized.

I never could do anything with figures, never had any talent for mathematics, never accomplished anything in my efforts at that rugged study, and to-day the only mathematics I know is multiplication, and the minute I get away up in that, as soon as I reach nine times seven- [He lapsed into deep thought, trying to figure nine times seven. Mr. McKelway whispered the answer to him.] I've got it now. It's eighty-four. Well, I can get that far all right with a little hesitation. After that I am uncertain, and I can't manage a statistic.

That is the way we are made: we don't reason, where we feel; we just feel.

One of the proofs of the immortality of the soul is that myriads have believed it. They also believed the world was flat.

Drawing on my fine command of language, I said nothing.