A private should preserve a respectful attitude toward his superiors, and should seldom or never proceed so far as to offer suggestions to his general in the field. If the battle is not being conducted to suit him, it is better for him to resign. By the etiquette of war, it is permitted to none below the rank of newspaper correspondent to dictate to the general in the field.

There are times when one would like to hang the whole human race, and finish the farce.

We wish to learn all the curious, outlandish ways of all the different countries, so that we can "show off" and astonish people when we get home. We wish to excite the envy of our untraveled friends with our strange foreign fashions which we can't shake off.

In the ancient city of London, on a certain autumn day in the second quarter of the sixteenth century, a boy was born to a poor family of the name of Canty, who did not want him.

Fortune knocks at every man's door once in a life.

The waves most washed me off the raft sometimes, but I hadn't any clothes on, and didn't mind.

I can't do no literary work for the rest of this year because I'm meditating another lawsuit and looking around for a defendant.