The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are in the wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are in the right.

All kings is mostly rapscallions, as fur as I can make out.

In literature imitations do not imitate.

The Church worked hard at it night and day during nine centuries and imprisoned, tortured, hanged, and burned whole hordes and armies of witches, and washed the Christian world clean with their foul blood. Then it was discovered that there was no such thing as witches, and never had been. One doesn't know whether to laugh or to cry. Who discovered that there was no such thing as a witch - the priest, the parson? No, these never discover anything.

The moral of it is this: If you are of any account, stay at home and make your way by faithful diligence; but if you are 'no account,' go away from home, and then you will have to work, whether you want to or not. Thus you become a blessing to your friends by ceasing to be a nuisance to them-if the people you go among suffer by the operation.

He was sunshine most always-I mean he made it seem like good weather.

If voting made any difference they wouldn't let us do it.