We were surprised how closely the cuckoo imitated the clock-and yet, of course, it could never have heard a clock.

Which is him?" The grammar was faulty, maybe, but we could not know, then, that it would go in a book someday.

If I had more time, I would have written less.

Tom appeared on the sidewalk with a bucket of whitewash and a long-handled brush. He surveyed the fence, and all gladness left him and a deep melancholy settled down upon his spirit. Thirty yards of board fence nine feet high. Life to him seemed hollow, and existence but a burden.

Life is short, break the rules.

Where was the use, originally, in rushing this whole globe through in six days? It is likely that if more time had been taken in the first place, the world would have been made right, and this ceaseless improving and repairing would not be necessary now. But if you hurry a world or a house, you are nearly sure to find out by and by that you have left out a towhead, or a broom-closet, or some other little convenience, here and there, which has got to be supplied, no matter how much expense or vexation it may cost.

A little starvation can really do more for the average sick man than can the best medicines and the best doctors.