Fern was up at daylight, trying to rid the world of injustice. As a result, she now has a pig. A small one to be sure, but nevertheless a pig. It just shows what can happen if a person gets out of bed promptly.
Make the work interesting and the discipline will take care of itself.
Be obscure clearly! Be wild of tongue in a way we can understand.
Prejudice is a great time saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts.
No matter what changes take place in the world, or in me, nothing ever seems to disturb the face of spring.
Half a man’s life is devoted to what he calls improvements, yet the original had some quality which is lost in the process.
Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it.
A poem compresses much in a small space and adds music, thus heightening its meaning.
Only a person who is congenially self-centered has the effrontery and the stamina to write essays.
Once in everyone’s life there is apt to be a period when he is fully awake, instead of half-asleep.
Semi-colons only prove that the author has been to college.
I am always humbled by the infite ingenuity of the Lord, who can make a red barn cast a blue shadow.
A despot doesn’t fear eloquent writers preaching freedom- he fears a drunken poet who may crack a joke that will take hold.
Never hurry and never worry!
To achieve style, begin by affecting none.
Before the seed there comes the thought of bloom.
Use the smallest word that does the job.
Hang on to your hat. Hang on to your hope. And wind the clock, for tomorrow is another day.
A schoolchild should be taught grammar – for the same reason that a medical student should study anatomy.
If a man is to be obsessed by something, I suppose a boat is as good as anything, perhaps a bit better than most.