To be feared of a thing and yet to do it, is what makes the prettiest kind of a man.

Some people swallow the universe like a pill; they travel on through the world, like smiling images pushed from behind.

If you keep on drinking rum, the world will soon be quit of a very dirty scoundrel!

I had learned to dwell with pleasure as a beloved daydream on the thought of the separation of these elements. If each I told myself could be housed in separate identities life would be relieved of all that was unbearable the unjust might go his way delivered from the aspirations and remorse of his more upright twin and the just could walk steadfastly and securely on his upward path doing the good things in which he found his pleasure and no longer exposed to disgrace and penitence by the hands of this extraneous evil.

There is but one art, to omit! Oh, if I knew how to omit I would ask no other knowledge. A man who knows how to omit would make an Iliad of a daily paper.

The friendly cow, all red and white, I love with all my heart; She gives me cream with all her might, To eat with apple-tart.

Truth in spirit, not truth to the letter, is the true veracity.