I wish either my father or my mother, or indeed both of them, as they were in duty both equally bound to it, had minded what they were about when they begot me.

Only the brave know how to forgive...A coward never forgave; it is not in his nature.

'Pray, my dear,' quoth my mother, 'have you not forgot to wind up the clock?' - 'Good G-!' cried my father, making an exclamation, but taking care to moderate …

So long as a man rides his hobbyhorse peaceably and quietly along the King's highway, and neither compels you or me to get up behind him - pray, Sir, what have…

I come from Des Moines. Somebody had to.

I'm only waiting for my wife to grow up.

Camus said there is only really one serious philosophical question, which is whether or not to commit suicide. I think there are four or five serious philosoph…