A man's mind will very gradually refuse to make itself up until it is driven and compelled by emergency. |
A small daily task if it really be daily, will beat the labors of a spasmodic Hercules |
As to that leisure evening of life, I must say that I do not want it. I can conceive of no contentment of which toil is not to be the immediate parent. |
Book love... is your pass to the greatest, the purest, and the most perfect pleasure that God has prepared for His creatures. |
Considering how much we are all given to discuss the characters of others, and discuss them often not in the strictest spirit of charity, it is singular how little we are inclined to think that others can speak ill-naturedly of us, and how angry and hurt we are when proof reaches us that they have done so. |
He must have known me if he had seen me as he was wont to see me, for he was in the habit of flogging me constantly. Perhaps he did not recognize me by my face. |
I doubt whether any girl would be satisfied with her lover's mind if she knew the whole of it. |
I hold that gentleman to be the best-dressed whose dress no one observes. |
In these days a man is nobody unless his biography is kept so far posted up that it may be ready for the national breakfast-table on the morning after his demise. |
It has been the great fault of our politicians that they have all wanted to do something. |
It is a comfortable feeling to know that you stand on your own ground. Land is about the only thing that can't fly away. |
It is a comfortable feeling to know that you stand on your own ground. Land is about the only thing that can't fly away. |
It may almost be a question whether such wisdom as many of us have in our mature years has not come from the dying out of the power of temptation, rather than as the results of thought and resolution. |
It's dogged as does it. It ain't thinking about it. |
It's dogged as does it. It ain't thinking about it. |