Men will confess to treason, murder, arson, false teeth, or a wig. How many of them will own up to a lack of humor? |
My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me. |
Nobody can describe a fool to the life, without much patient self-inspection |
One learns little more about a man from his feats of literary memory than from the feats of his alimentary canal. |
Persecution was at least a sign of personal interest. Tolerance is composed of nine parts of apathy to one of brotherly love. |
Persecution was at least a sign of personal interest. Tolerance is composed of nine parts of apathy to one of brotherly love. |
Politics is a place of humble hopes and strangely modest requirements, where all are good who are not criminal and all are wise who are not ridiculously otherwise. |
Reform often seems only the dislike of the blase for the people with animal spirits |
Sin in this country has been always said to be rather calculating than impulsive. |
Talk ought always to run obliquely, not nose to nose with no chance of mental escape. |
That is the consolation of a little mind; you have the fun of changing it without impeding the progress of mankind. |
The New York playgoer is a child of nature, and he has an honest and wholesome regard of whatever is atrocious in art. |
Tolerance is composed of nine parts of apathy to one of brotherly love |
We always carry out by committee anything in which any one of us alone would be too reasonable to persist. |
We do not mind our not arriving anywhere nearly so much as our not having any company on the way. |