A powerful agent is the right word: it lights the reader's way and makes it plain.

Ah, that shows you the power of music, that magician of magician, who lifts his wand and says his mysterious word and all things real pass away and the phantoms of your mind walk before you clothed in flesh.

You can tell German wine from vinegar by the label.

You should never trust a man who has only one way to spell a word.

Figures don't lie, but liars figure.

Tight pants are just uncomfortable.

It is the will of God that we must have critics and missionaries and congressmen and humorists, and we must bear the burden