What a wee little part of a person's life are his acts and his words! His real life is led in his head, and is known to none but himself.

The old man laughed loud and joyously, shook up the details of his anatomy from head to foot, and ended by saying that such a laugh was money in a man's pocket, because it cut down the doctor's bills like everything.

Life is short. Forgive quickly, kiss slowly and love truly.

How lovely is death; and how niggardly it is doled out.

I never can think of Judas Iscariot without losing my temper. To my mind Judas Iscariot was nothing but a low, mean, premature, Congressman.

She was not quite what you would call refined. She was not quite what you would call unrefined. She was the kind of person that keeps a parrot.

What is the difference between a taxidermist and a tax collector? The taxidermist takes only your skin.