"The nice thing about standards is that you have so many to choose from."

"It was one of those hot days and it got to be about a hundred degrees, and old Mike just got fed up and threw his books in the corner, and said, 'See ya later, Doc, I'm going to war.' Next thing we he…"

"The poets of the last generation were extremely erudite, but their erudition was of the rather specialized type that passed as currency of the realm in a somewhat literary realm. About Darwin, Marx, F…"

"So there ain't nothing more to write about, and I am rotten glad of it, because if I'd a knowed what a trouble it was to make a book I wouldn't a tackled it and aint't agoing to no more. But I reckon …"

"When the Sun touches the equinoctial circle, where that which is most definite is placed ; at that very moment , the Sacred Tree is cut down; then come the other rites in their order; whereof some are…"