The statue that advertises its modesty with a fig leaf really brings its modesty under suspicion |
the story of his life, the inexhaustible, the fairy, the Arabian Nights story. |
The system of refusing the mere act of drinking and leaving the desire in full force, is unintelligent war tactics, it seems to me |
The time to begin writing an article is when you have finished it to your satisfaction. By that time you begin to clearly and logically perceive what it is you really want to say. |
The trade of critic, in literature, music, and the drama, is the most degraded of all trades |
The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right. |
The trouble with the world is not that people know too little, but that they know so many things that ain't so. |
The trouble with you Chicago people is that you think you are the best people down here, whereas you are merely the most numerous. |
The true charm of pedestrianism does not lie in the walking, or in the scenery, but in the talking. The walking is good to time the movement of the tongue by, and to keep the blood and the brain stirred up and active . . . |
The true charm of pedestrianism does not lie in the walking, or in the scenery, but in the talking. The walking is good to time the movement of the tongue by, and to keep the blood and the brain stirred up and active; the scenery and the woodsy smells are good to bear in upon a man an unconscious and unobtrusive charm and solace to eye and soul and sense; but the supreme pleasure comes from the talk. |
The true charm of pedestrianism does not lie in the walking, or the scenery, but in the talking. |
The true pioneer of civilization is not the newspaper, not religion, not the railroad--but whiskey! |
The universal brotherhood of man is our most precious possession, what there is of it |
The vast majority of the race, whether savage or civilized, are secretly kind-hearted and shrink from inflicting pain, but in the presence of the aggressive and pitiless minority they don't dare to assert themselves. |
The very ink with which all history is written is merely fluid prejudice |