In my schoolboy days I had no aversion to slavery. I was not aware there was anything wrong about it. No-one arraigned it in my hearing; the local papers said nothing against it; the local pulpit taught us that God approved it, that it was a holy thing, and that the doubter need only look in the Bible if he wished to settle his mind.

Words are only painted fire, a look is the fire itself. She gave that look, and carried it away to the treasury of heaven, where all things that are divine belong.

A German joke is no laughing matter.

Golden rule: Made of hard metal so it could stand severe wear, it not being known at that time that butter would answer.

Man was made at the end of the week's work when God was tired.

There is no urge so great as for one man to edit another man's work.

That cat will write her autograph all over your leg if you let her.