A greater number of God's creatures believe in Mahomet's word at this hour than in any other word whatever. Are we to suppose that it was a miserable piece of spiritual legerdemain, this which so many creatures of the almighty have lived by and died by?

The real use of gunpowder is to make all men tall.

Professors of the Dismal Science, I perceive the length of your tether is now pretty well run; and I must request you to talk a little lower in the future.

The dust of controversy is merely the falsehood flying off.

The past is all holy to us; the dead are all holy; even they that were wicked when alive.

What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.

The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist.