A soiled baby with a neglected nose cannot be conscientiously regarded as a thing of beauty.

When all is said and done, the one sole condition that makes spiritual happiness and preserves it is the absence of doubt.

I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.

It didn't take me long to make up my mind that these liars warn't no kings nor dukes at all, but just low-down humbugs and frauds. But I never said nothing, never let on; kept it to myself; it's the best way; then you don't have no quarrels, and don't get into no trouble. If they wanted us to call them kings and dukes, I hadn't no objections, 'long as it would keep peace in the family; and it warn't no use to tell Jim, so I didn't tell him. If I never learnt nothing else out of pap, I learnt that the best way to get along with his kind of people is to let them have their own way.

I don't speak German well but several experts have assured me that I write it like an angel. Maybe so, maybe so- I don't know. I've not yet made any acquaintances among the angels. That comes later, whenever it please the Deity. I'm not in any hurry.

Most people are bothered by those passages of Scripture they do not understand, but the passages that bother me are those I do understand.

To someone with a hammer, everything looks like a nail.