Said the panama hat to the fedora: “Sins have different prices in hell.” Said the fedora hat to the panama:
“Yeah, nickel and dime sins, silver-dollar sins, sins setting you back a century, a grand, sins you can’t settle under a million bucks, tin and aluminum sins, brass sins, copper, old gold, pint and bushel sins, inch and mile sins, calculated little teapot sins and roaring tornadoes.”

—Carl Sandburg, “Quotations,” in Honey and Salt, (San Diego, CA, USA: Harvest/Harcourt Brace Jovanovich Publishers, 1963), 78.