Surgeons and anatomists see no beautiful women in all their lives, but only a ghastly stack of bones with Latin names to them, and a network of nerves and muscles and tissues inflamed by disease. |
Switzerland is simply a large, lumpy, solid rock with a thin skin of grass stretched over it. |
Taking the pledge will not make bad liquor good, but it will improve it |
Tell the truth or trump - but get the trick |
Temperate temperance is best; intemperate temperance injures the cause of temperance |
That's the difference between governments and individuals. Governments don't care, individuals do. |
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. |
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, |
The altar cloth of one aeon is the doormat of the next |
The Autocrat of Russia possesses more power than any other man in the earth; but he cannot stop a sneeze |
The average American girl possesses the valuable qualities of naturalness, honesty, and inoffensive straightforwardness; she is nearly barren of troublesome conventions and artificialities; consequently, her presence and her ways are unembarrassing, |
The average American's simplest and commonest form of breakfast consists of coffee and beefsteak. |
The average man don't like trouble and danger. |
The banging and slamming and booming and crashing were something beyond belief. |
The best and most telling speech is not the actual impromptu one but the counterfeit of it. |