Attack is the reaction; I never think I have hit hard unless it rebounds.

Read over your compositions, and wherever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.

A man will turn over half a library to make one book.

A cow is a very good animal in the field; but we turn her out of a garden.

The enemy is like a woman, weak in face of opposition, but correspondingly strong when not opposed. In a quarrel with a man, it is natural for a woman to lose …

Major, we didn't take Washington, but we scared Abe Lincoln like hell.

Brer Rabbit keep on axin' 'im, en de Tar-Baby, she keep on sayin' nothin', twel present'y Brer Rabbit draw back wid his fis', he did, en blip he tuck 'er side …