Never do wrong when people are looking.

The Germans have an inhuman way of cutting up their verbs. Now a verb has a hard time enough of it in this world when it's all together. It's downright inhuman to split it up. But that's just what those Germans do. They take part of a verb and put it down here, like a stake, and they take the other part of it and put it away over yonder like another stake, and between these two limits they just shovel in German. from "Disappearance of Literature

Now is the accepted time to make your regular annual good resolutions. Next week you can begin paving hell with them as usual.

I could never learn to like her, except on a raft at sea with no other provisions in sight.

Cold! If the thermometer had been an inch longer we'd all have frozen to death!

One must travel, to learn. Every day, now, old Scriptural phrases that never possessed any significance for me before, take to themselves a meaning.

Never let the truth get in the way of a good story.