What a curious kind of fool a girl is. Never been licked in school. What’s a licking?
A sound heart is a surer guide than an ill-trained conscience.
Well, Ben Rogers, if I was as ignorant as you I wouldn’t let on.
The pause – that impressive silence, that eloquent silence, that geometrically progressive silence which often achieves a desired effect where no combination of words, howsoever felicitous, could accomplish it.
Nothing exists but you. And you are but a thought.
Ah, if he could only die temporarily!
Switzerland would me a mighty big place if it were ironed flat.
Write without pay until someone offers pay. If nobody offers within three years, the candidate may look upon this as a sign that sawing wood is what he was intended for.
Stars and shadows ain’t good to see by.
What’s the use you learning to do right, when it’s troublesome to do right and it ain’t no trouble to do wrong, and the wages is just the same?
Every one knew he could foretell wars and famines, though that was not so hard, for there was always a war, and generally a famine somewhere.
Give a man a reputation as an early riser and he can sleep ’til noon.
I saw a startling sight today, a politician with his hands in his own pockets.
The ability to find solutions to life’s challenges is what makes us grow as a person.
The pitifulest thing out is a mob; that’s what an army is – a mob; they don’t fight with courage that’s born in them, but with courage that’s borrowed from their mass, and from their officers. But a mob without any MAN at the head of it is BENEATH pitifulness.
I once sent a dozen of my friends a telegram saying ‘flee at once – all is discovered.’ They all left town immediately.
I have too much respect for the truth to drag it out on every trifling occasion.
The joy of killing! the joy of seeing killing done – these are traits of the human race at large.
But death was sweet, death was gentle, death was kind; death healed the bruised spirit and the broken heart, and gave them rest and forgetfulness; death was man’s best friend; when man could endure life no longer, death came and set him free.
He was sunshine most always-I mean he made it seem like good weather.