Most people have died before they expire; died to all earthly longings, so that the last breath is only, as it were, the locking of the door of the already deserted mansion.

Young feller, you will never appreciate the potentialities of the English language until you have heard a Southern mule driver search the soul of a mule.

Even a dog distinguishes between being stumbled over and being kicked.

The worst of a modern stylish mansion is that it has no place for ghosts.

Liberty is often a heavy burden on a man. It involves the necessity for perpetual choice which is the kind of labor men have always dreaded.

My right to swing my fist ends where your nose begins.

To have doubted one's own first principles is the mark of a civilized man.