If your mother tells you to do a thing, it is wrong to reply that you won't. It is better and more becoming to intimate that you will do as she bids you, and then afterward act quietly in the matter according to the dictates of your best judgment.

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I was sorry to have my name mentioned among the great authors because they have a sad habit of dying off.

There is no such thing as the Queen's English. The property has gone into the hands of a joint stock company and we own the bulk of the shares!

If you have to swallow a frog, don't stare at it too long.

I was seldom able to see an opportunity until it had ceased to be one.

I don't blame anybody. I deserve it all. Let the cold world do its worst; one thing I know—there's a grave somewhere for me. The world may go on just as it's always done, and take everything from me—loved ones, property, everything; but it can't take that. Some day I'll lie down in it and forget it all, and my poor broken heart will be at rest.

When red-haired people are above a certain social grade their hair is auburn.

When majority is insane, sane must go to asylum.

The first time the Deity came down to earth, he brought life and death; when he came the second time, he brought hell.

Concentration of power in a political machine is bad; and and an Established Church is only a political machine; it was invented for that; it is nursed, cradled, preserved for that; it is an enemy to human liberty, and does no good which it could not better do in a split-up and scattered condition.

I would rather decline two drinks than one German adjective.

I can help anyone get anything they want out of life. The only problem is that I can't find anyone who knows what they want.

A man's character may be learned from the adjectives which he habitually uses in conversation.

Do something everyday that you don't want to do; this is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain.

Diligence and attention soon gave him the knack of it, and he strode down the street with his mouth full of harmony and his soul full of gratitude.