How slow and still the time did drag along.

A little lie can travel half way 'round the world while Truth is still lacing up her boots.

By reading keep in a state of excited igorance, like a blind man in a house afire; flounder around, immensely but unintelligently interested; don't know how I got in and can't find the way out, but I'm having a booming time all to myself.Don't know what a Schelgesetzentwurf is, but I keep as excited over it and as worried about it as if it were my own child. I simply live on the Sch.; it is my daily bread. I wouldn't have the question settled for anything in the world.

Adam was the luckiest man in the world. He had no mother-in-law.

Barring that natural expression of villainy which we all have, the man looked honest enough.

But the people cannot have wells, and so they take rain-water. Neither can they conveniently have cellars or graves, the town being built upon "made ground"; so they do without both, and few of the living complain, and none of the others.

I like the truth sometimes, but I don't care enough for it to hanker after it.