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An orphan's curse would drag to HellA spirit from on high;But oh! More horrible than thatIs the curse in a dead man's eye.
What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn't much better than tedious disease.
So cheat your landlord if you can and must, but do not try to shortchange the Muse. It cannot be done. You can't fake quality any more than you can fake a good meal.
It would be a sad situation if the wrapper were better than the meat wrapped inside it.
A photograph never grows old. You and I change, people change all through the months and years, but a photograph always remains the same. How nice to look at a photograph of mother or father taken many years ago. You see them as you remember them. But as people live on, they change completely. That is why I think a photograph can be kind.
He who would pass his declining years with honor and comfort, should, when young, consider that he may one day become old, and remember when he is old, that he has once been young.
Every kind of peaceful cooperation among men is primarily based on mutual trust and only secondarily on institutions such as courts of justice and police.
A merry Christmas, uncle! God save you!' cried a cheerful voice. 'Bah!' said Scrooge. 'Humbug!'
When I study philosophical works I feel I am swallowing something which I don't have in my mouth.
There is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are virtue and talents.
I like to help women help themselves, as that is, in my opinion, the best way to settle the woman question. Whatever we can do and do well we have a right to, and I don't think any one will deny us.
An occasional lucky guess as to what makes a wife tick is the best a man can hope for, Even then, no sooner has he learned how to cope with the tick than she tocks.
Look, I don't want to wax philosophic, but I will say that if you're alive you've got to flap your arms and legs, you've got to jump around a lot, for life is the very opposite of death, and therefore you must at very least think noisy and colorfully, or you're not alive.
Somehow he [Tim] gets thoughtful sitting by himself so much, and thinks the strangest things you ever heard. He told me, coming home, that he hoped the people saw him in the church, because he was a cripple, and it might be pleasant for them to remember upon Christmas Day, who made lame beggars walk, and blind men see.
I am a strong believer in luck and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.
I was going to have an opening statement, but I decided I wanted a lot of attention so I decided to wait and leak it.
