The human race has only one really effective weapon and that is laughter.

Wit is the sudden marriage of ideas which before their union were not perceived to have any relation.

This poor little one-horse town.

You can find in a text whatever you bring, if you will stand between it and the mirror of your imagination. You may not see your ears, but they will be there.

Noise proves nothing. Often a hen who has merely laid an egg cackles as if she laid an asteroid.

Herschel removed the speckled tent-roof from the world and exposed the immeasurable deeps of space, dim-flecked with fleets of colossal suns sailing their billion-leagued remoteness.