The best way to cheer yourself is to try to cheer someone else up. |
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up. |
The Bible is a mass of fables and traditions, mere mythology |
The blunting effects of slavery upon the slaveholder's moral perceptions are known and conceded the world over; and a privileged class, an aristocracy, is but a band of slaveholders under another name |
The calamity that comes is never the one we had prepared ourselves for |
The cat, having sat upon a hot stove lid, will not sit upon a hot stove lid again. But he won't sit upon a cold stove lid, either. |
The Christian's Bible is a drug store. Its contents remain the same, but the medical practice changes. |
The church is always trying to get other people to reform; it might not be a bad idea to reform itself a little, by way of example |
The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco |
The confidence of ignorance will always overcome the indecision of knowledge |
The convention miscalled 'modesty' has no standard, and cannot have one, because it is opposed to nature and reason and is therefore an artificiality and subject to anybody's whim - anybody's diseased caprice |
The conviction of the rich that the poor are happier is no more foolish than the conviction of the poor that the rich are |
The country is the real thing, the substantial thing, the eternal thing, it is the thing to watch over and care for and be loyal to; institutions are extraneous. . . . |
The Creator made Italy from designs by Michael Angelo |
The critic's symbol should be the tumble-bug: he deposits his egg in somebody else's dung, otherwise he could not hatch it |