It’s not the good that die young, it’s the lucky.
In a museum in Havana, there are two skulls of Christopher Columbus, one when he was a boy and one when he was a man.
Man never creates, he only recombines the lines and colors of his own existance.
The proverb says that Providence protects children and idiots. This is really true. I know because I have tested it.
Every man is a moon and has a side which he turns toward nobody: you have to slip around behind it if you want to see it.
A newspaper is not just for reporting the news as it is, but to make people mad enough to do something about it.
I think the Cincinnati Enquirer must be edited by children.
If you don’t know how to pronounce a word, say it loudly. Do not compound mispronunciation with inaudibility.
S’pose a man was to come to you and say Pollyvoo-franzy – what would you think?
Sometimes you gwyne to git hurt, en sometimes you gwyne to git sick; but every time you’s gwyne to git well agin.
The humorous story is told gravely; the teller does his best to conceal the fact that he even dimly suspects that there is anything funny about it.
Life should begin with age and it’s privileges and accumulations, and end with youth and it’s capacity to splendidly enjoy such advantages.
All say, ‘how hard it is that we have to die’ – a strange complaint to come from the mouths of those who have had to live.
The exquisitely bad is as satisfying to the soul as the exquisitely good. Only the mediocre is unendurable.
It’s not as bad as it sounds.
I persuaded him to throw the dirk away; and it was as easy as persuading a child to give up some bright fresh new way of killing itself.
Memories which someday will become all beautiful when the last annoyance that encumbers them shall have faded out of our minds.
One frequently only finds out how really beautiful a women is, until after considerable acquaintance with her.
At noon I observed a bevy of nude young native women bathing in the sea, and I went and sat down on there clothes to keep them from being stolen.
Additional problems are the offspring of poor solutions.