Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured. - Mark Twain

When you catch an adjective, kill it. No, I don't mean utterly, but kill most of them — then the rest will be valuable. They weaken when they are close together. They give strength when they are far apart.

Thanksgiving Day originated in New England when the Puritans realized they had succeeded in exterminating their neighbors, the Indians, instead of getting exterminated by their neighbors, the Indians.

Morals are an acquirement—like music, like a foreign language, like piety, poker, paralysis—no man is born with them.