You can’t throw too much style into a miracle.
He was endowed with a stupidity which by the least little stretch would go around the globe four times and tie.
Being made merely in the image of God but not otherwise resembling him enough to be mistaken by anybody but a very near sighted person.
To be a patriot, one had to say, and keep on saying, “Our Country, right or wrong,” and urge on the little war. Have you not perceived that that phrase is an insult to the nation?
Satan hasn’t a single salaried helper; the Opposition employs a million.
We have not the reverent feeling for the rainbow that the savage has, because we know how it is made. We have lost as much as we gained by prying into that matter.
I wonder if God created man because He was disappointed with the monkey.
I was sorry to have my name mentioned as one of the great authors, because they have a sad habit of dying off. Chaucer is dead, Spencer is dead, so is Milton, so is Shakespeare, and I’m not feeling so well myself.
Kings cannot ennoble thee, thou good, great soul, for One who is higher than kings hath done that for thee; but a king can confirm thy nobility to men.
If a cat sits on a hot stove, that cat won’t sit on a hot stove again. That cat won’t sit on a cold stove either. That cat just don’t like stoves.
Now he found out a new thing – namely, that to promise not to do a thing is the surest way in the world to make a body want to go and do that very thing.
There are some few people I respect and admire, but I don’t think much of the species.
The time to begin writing an article is when you have finished it to your satisfaction. By that time you begin to clearly and logically perceive what it is you really want to say.
The average man don’t like trouble and danger.
There warn’t anybody at the church, except maybe a hog or two, for there warn’t any lock on the door, and hogs likes a puncheon floor in summer-time because it’s cool. If you notice, most folks don’t go to church only when they’ve got to; but a hog is different.
I believe I have no prejudices whatsoever. All I need to know is that a man is a member of the human race. That’s bad enough for me.
All kings is mostly rapscallions, as fur as I can make out.
A man has no business to be depressed by a disappointment, anyway; he ought to make up his mind to get even.
If you must be indiscrete, be discrete in your indiscretion.
It may have happened, it may not have happened but it could have happened.