Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things can not be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime.

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So I held on till all the late sounds had quit and the early ones hadn't begun yet; and then I slipped down the ladder.

I do not wish to hear about the moon from someone who has not been there.

If we would learn what the human race really is at bottom, we need only observe it in election times.

The pause - that impressive silence, that eloquent silence, that geometrically progressive silence which often achieves a desired effect where no combination of words, howsoever felicitous, could accomplish it.

It is just like man's vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions.

It's good sportsmanship to not pick up lost golf balls while they are still rolling.

It made him feel a little uncomfortable sometimes when he reflected that the good little boys always died. He loved to live, you know, and this was the most unpleasant feature about being a Sunday-school-book boy. He knew it was not healthy to be good.

Death is to life as heaven is to hell they're both dependent on each other.

It put our energies to sleep and made visionaries of us - dreamers and indolent... It is good to begin life poor; it is good to begin life rich - these are wholesome; but to begin it prospectively rich! The man who has not experienced it cannot imagine the curse of it.

The Bible has noble poetry in it... and some good morals and a wealth of obscenity, and upwards of a thousand lies.

If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.

The best of all lost arts is honesty.

Work is a necessary evil to be avoided.

I said nothing of the sort.