I ordinarily smoke fifteen cigars during my five hours' labours, and if my interest reaches the enthusiastic point, I smoke more. I smoke with all my might, and allow no intervals.

Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be.

Do your duty today and repent tomorrow.

It has taken a weary long time to persuade American Presbyterians to give up infant damnation and try to bear it the best they can.

The higher animals get their teeth without pain or inconvenience. Man gets his through months and months of cruel torture; he will never get a set which can really be depended on 'till a dentist makes him one.

If we learned to walk and talk the way we learn to read and write, everyone would limp and stutter.

Manifestly, dying is nothing to a really great and brave man.