There are three kinds of liars: liars, damned liars, and statisticians

He had the calm confidence of a Christian with four aces.

Yes - en I's rich now, come to look at it. I owns myself, en I's wuth eight hund'd dollars. I wisht I had de money, I wouldn' want no mo'.

The silent colossal National Lie that is the support and confederate of all the tyrannies and shams and inequalities and unfairnesses that afflict the peoples — that is the one to throw bricks and sermons at.

We take a natural interest in novelties, but it is against nature to take an interest in familiar things.

The Creator made Italy from designs by Michelangelo.

Optimist: day dreamer more elegantly spelled.