Oh, no doubt the cod is a splendid swimmer - admirable for swimming purposes but not for eating.

The beautiful, passionate, ruined South, the land of magnolias and music, of roses and romance . . . living on the memory of crushing defeats

Even things that are true can be proved.

On the whole, the great success of marriage in the States is due partly to the fact that no American man is ever idle, and partly to the fact that no American wife is considered responsible for the quality of her husband's dinners.

Well, one must be serious about something, if one wants to have any amusement in life.

Why was I born with such contemporaries?

I have said to you to speak the truth is a painful thing. To be forced to tell lies is much worse.