Never tell a lie-except for practice.
But we are all insane, anyway. Note the mountain-climbers.
Really, what we want now, is not laws against crime, but a law against insanity. That is where the true evil lies.
Once I talked to the inmates of an insane asylum in Hartford. I have talked to idiots a thousand times, but only once to the insane...
No one is sane, straight along, year in and year out, and we all know it. Our insanities are of varying sorts, and express themselves in varying forms-fortunately harmless forms as a rule.
The average American may not know who his grandfather was. But the American was, however, one degree better off than the average Frenchman who, as a rule, was in considerable doubt as to who his father was.
What is there that confers the noblest delight? What is that which swells a man’s breast with pride above that which any other experience can bring to him? Discovery!
The work that is really a man’s own work is play and not work at all.
When a man’s dog turns against hime, it is time for his wife to pack her trunk and go home to mamma.
What is the most rigorous law of our being? Growth. No smallest atom of our moral, mental, or physical structure can stand still a year. It grows – it must grow; nothing can prevent it.
I was a-trembling, because I’d got to decide, forever, betwixt two things, and I knowed it.
There is nothing training cannot do. Nothing is above its reach. It can turn bad morals to good; it can destroy bad principles and recreate good ones; it can lift men to angelship.
My advice to girls: first, don’t smoke – to excess; second, don’t drink – to excess; third, don’t marry – to excess.
I would rather go to bed with Lillian Russell stark naked than Ulysses S Grant in full military regalia.
What, then, is the true Gospel of consistency? Change. Who is the really consistent man? The man who changes. Since change is the law of his being, he cannot be consistent if he stick in a rut.
Every man is a moon; he has a side no one sees.
The introduction of homeopathy forced the old school doctor to stir around and learn something of a rational nature about his business. You may honestly feel grateful that homeopathy survived the attempts of the allopaths to destroy it.
Whatever thing men call great, look for it in Joan of Arc, and there you will find it.
It is our nature to conform; it is a force which not many can successfully resist. What is its seat? The inborn requirement of self-approval.
Armor is heavy, yet it is a proud burden, and a man standeth straight in it.