Weather is a great bluffer. I guess the same is true of our human society -- things can look dark, then a break shows in the clouds, and all is changed. |
Weather is a literary specialty, and no untrained hand can turn out a good article on it |
Well enough for old folks to rise early, because they have done so many mean things all their lives they can't sleep anyhow. |
Well, we can take you to meet Napoleon -- but he's shining the boots of the person who actually was the world's greatest military genius. He happens to have been a tinsmith from Pennsylvania who never had a chance to go to a military academy -- so he never even knew he was a great military genius. He was born with that capacity -- and only here in heaven do we actually know who these people are. |
What a good thing Adam had. When he said a good thing he knew nobody had said it before. |
What a lie it is to call this a free country, where none but the unworthy and undeserving may swear. |
What a man misses mostly in heaven is company |
What a wee little part of a person's life are his acts and his words! His real life is led in his head, and is known to none but himself |
What do you call love, hate, charity, revenge, humanity, magnanimity, forgiveness? Different results of the one master impulse: the necessity of securing one's self-approval |
What is human life? The first third a good time; the rest remembering about it |
What is the difference between a taxidermist and a tax collector? The taxidermist takes only your skin |
What is the most rigorous law of our being? Growth. No smallest atom of our moral, mental, or physical structure can stand still a year. It grows / it must grow; nothing can prevent it. |
What is there in Rome for me to see that others have not seen before me? What is there for me to touch that others have not touched? What is there for me to feel, to learn, to hear, to know, that shall thrill me before it pass to others? |
What is there that confers the noblest delight? What is that which swells a man's breast with pride above that which any other experience can bring to him? Discovery! To know that you are walking where none others have walked |
What ought to be done to the man who invented the celebrating of anniversaries? Mere killing would be too light. |