There isn’t a Parallel of Latitude but thinks it would have been the Equator if it had had its rights.
Nothing is made in vain, but the fly came near it.
The cayote is a living, breathing allegory of Want. He is always hungry. He is always poor, out of luck and friendless. The meanest creatures despise him, and even the fleas would desert him for a velocipede.
If there is one thing that is really cheerful in the world, it is cheerfulness. I have noticed it often. And I have noticed that when a man is right down cheerful, he is seldom unhappy for the time being. Such is the nature of man.
If your mother tells you to do a thing, it is wrong to reply that you won’t. It is better and more becoming to intimate that you will do as she bids you, and then afterwards act quietly in the matter according to the dictates of your better judgment.
The first half of my life I went to school, the second half of my life I got an education.
If true, rarely beautiful. If beautiful, rarely true.
How unfortunate and how narrowing a thing it is for a man to have wealth who makes a god of it instead of a servant.
I have stopped smoking now and then, for a few months at a time, but it was not on principle, it was only to show off; it was to pulverize those critics who said I was a slave to my habits and couldn’t break my bonds.
All human rules are more or less idiotic.
The best of us would rather be popular than right.
Who is this Renaissance? Where did he come from? Who gave him permission to cram the Republic with his execrable daubs?
I am losing enough sleep to supply a worn-out army.
You are about as happy as you make up your mind to be.
The highest pleasure to be got out of freedom, and having nothing to do, is labor.
Inherited ideas are a curious thing, and interesting to observe and examine.
Do your duty today and repent tomorrow.
The jury system puts a ban upon intelligence and honesty and a premium upon ignorance, stupidity and perjury.
Circumstance – which moves by laws of its own, regardless of parties and policies, and whose decrees are final and must be obeyed by all – and will be.
I’m in favor of progress; it’s change I don’t like.