The miracle, or the power, that elevates the few is to be found in their industry, application, and perseverance under the prompting of a brave, determined spirit. |
The Moral Sense teaches us what is right, and how to avoid it - when unpopular |
The more I get to know about lawyers, the more I'm in favor of hangin'. |
The more things are forbidden, the more popular they become |
The more you explain it, the more I don't understand it |
The most interesting information comes from children, for they tell all they know and then stop |
The new political gospel: Public office is private graft |
The New York papers have long known that no large question is ever really settled until I have been consulted |
The offspring of riches: Pride, vanity, ostentation, arrogance, tyranny |
The offspring of riches: Pride, vanity, ostentation, arrogance, tyranny |
The old man laughed loud and joyously, shook up the details of his anatomy from head to foot, and ended by saying such a laugh was money in a man's pocket because it cut down the doctor's bills like anything |
The older we grow the greater becomes our wonder at how much ignorance one can contain without bursting one's clothes |
The only people I know who still believe in hell are the ones who had the proper kind of upbringing |
The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don't want, drink what you don't like, and do what you'd rather not. |
The ordinary chestnut can beget a sickly and reluctant laugh, but it takes a horse chestnut to fetch the gorgeous big horse-laugh |