If you don't hurry up and let life know what you want, life will damned soon show you what you'll get.

It was as though she was an exile from a world that saw things her way

The love of truth lies at the root of much humor.

He was a genius - that is to say, a man who does superlatively and without obvious effort something that most people cannot do by the uttermost exertion of their abilities.

I came at last to a recognition of myself as, in part, a Tom Sawyer who wanted everything done according to the rules of romantic fiction, and complicated simple solutions with his absurd adolescent, book-born nonsense.

The Bible takes much of its color from whoever is reading it, and it provides a text to support almost every shade of opinion, however preposterous.

A man must be obedient to the promptings of his innermost heart.