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• Ah Sin was his name. -- Francis Bret Harte (1839-1902) -- Plain Language from Truthful Jame
• Which I wish to remark,-- And my language is plain,-- That for ways that are dark And for tricks that are vain, The heathen Chinee is peculiar.
  -- Francis Bret Harte (1839-1902) -- Plain Language from Truthful Jame...
• The only sure thing about luck is that it will change. -- Bret Harte
• There is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood by those who hear it.
  William James ['Varieties of Religious Experience', 1902]...
• All people smile in the same language.
• If of all words of tongue and pen, The saddest are, `It might have been,' More sad are these we daily see
  `It is, but hadn't ought to be.' -- Francis Brett Harte...
• Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set. -- Francis Bacon (1561-1626)
• Political language. . . is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.
  -- George Orwell...
• Political language ... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.