I have been studying the traits and dispositions of the "lower animals" (so called) and contrasting them with the traits and dispositions of man. I find the result humiliating to me.

Heroine: Girl in a book who is saved from drowning by a hero and marries him next week, but if it was to be over again ten years later it is likely she would rather have a life-belt and he would rather have her have it. Hero: Person in a book who does things which he can't and girl marries him for it.

Name the greatest of all inventors. Accident.

Frankness is a jewel; only the young can afford it.

The gentle reader will never, never know what a consummate ass he can become until he goes abroad.

If you should rear a duck in the heart of the Sahara, no doubt it would swim if you brought it to the Nile.

You see, he knew his own laws just as other people so often know the laws: by words, not by effects. They take a meaning, and get to be very vivid, when you come to apply them to yourself.