Be virtuous and you will be eccentric. |
Be Yourself is about the worst advice you can give to people. |
Beautiful credit! The foundation of modern society. |
Beautiful credit! The foundation of modern society. Who shall say that this is not the golden age of mutual trust, of unlimited reliance upon human promises? That is a peculiar condition of society which enables a whole nation to instantly recognize point and meaning in the familiar newspaper anecdote, which puts into the mouth of a distinguished speculator in lands and mines this remark: -- ''I wasn't worth a cent two years ago, and now I owe two millions of dollars.'' |
because it's more recent. |
Benefit of clergy: Half-rate on the railroad |
Better a broken promise than none at all. |
Better a broken promise than none at all. |
Between believing a thing and thinking you know is only a small step and quickly taken |
Between us, we cover all knowledge; he knows all that can be known and I know the rest. |
Biographies are but the clothes and buttons of a man - the biography of the man himself cannot be written |
Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else. |
Both marriage and death ought to be welcome: the one promises happiness, doubtless the other assures it |
Boy, can't you feel the ghosts of a century and a half of great thinkers, especially Twain? |
Broad, wholesome, charitable views ... can not be acquired by vegetating in one's little corner of the earth. |