Chicago sounds rough to the maker of verse. One comfort we have - Cincinnati sounds worse.
Grow we must, if we outgrow all that loves us.
A woman never forgets her sex. She would rather talk with a man than an angel, any day.
Every library should try to be complete on something, if it were only the history of pinheads.
A man may fulfill the object of his existence by asking a question he cannot answer, and attempting a task he cannot achieve.
Stillness of person and steadiness of features are signal marks of good breeding.
A thought is often original, though you have uttered it a hundred times.
Simple people... are very quick to see the live facts which are going on about them.
What a blessed thing it is, that Nature, when she invented, manufactured, and patented her authors, contrived to make critics out of the chips that were left!
Why can't somebody give us a list of things that everybody thinks and nobody says, and another list of things that everybody says and nobody thinks?
Rough work, iconoclasm, but the only way to get at truth.
A goose flies by a chart which the Royal Geographical Society could not mend.
People who honestly mean to be true really contradict themselves much more rarely than those who try to be 'consistent'.
A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.
