Recipe for a long life: Only smoke while awake. Only run when being chased.

You don't know about me, without you have read a book by the name of 'The Adventures of Tom Sawyer,' but that ain't no matter. That book was made by a Mr. Mark Twain, and he told the truth, mainly.

After my marriage she edited everything I wrote. And what is more, she not only edited my works, she edited me.

The wit knows that his place is at the tail of a procession.

Agassiz does recommend authors to eat fish, because the phosphorus in it makes brains. But I cannot help you to a decision about the amount you need to eat. Perhaps a couple of whales would be enough.

It is not a new thing for a thoroughly good and well-meaning preacher´s soft heart to run away with his soft head.

In India, 'cold weather' is merely a conventional phrase and has come into use through the necessity of having some way to distinguish between weather which will melt a brass door-knob and weather which will only make it mushy.