It is a mistake that there is no bath that will cure people's manners, but drowning would help.
To refuse awards is another way of accepting them with more noise than is normal.
Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
In America-as elsewhere-free speech is confined to the dead.
The lightning there is peculiar; it is so convincing, that when it strikes a thing it doesn't leave enough of that thing behind for you to tell whether-Well, you'd think it was something valuable, and a Congressman had been there.
All human rules are more or less idiotic.