Heaven goes by favor. If it went by merit, you would stay out and your dog would go in. - Mark Twain

It does look as if Massachusetts were in a fair way to embarrass me with kindnesses this year. In the first place, a Massachusetts judge has just decided in open court that a Boston publisher may sell, not only his own property in a free and unfettered way, but also may as freely sell property which does not belong to him but to me; property which he has not bought and which I have not sold. Under this ruling I am now advertising that judge's homestead for sale, and, if I make as good a sum out of it as I expect, I shall go on and sell out the rest of his property.

What then is the true gospel of consistency? Change.

I take my only exercise acting as a pallbearer at the funerals of my friends who exercise regularly.