Credulity is the man's weakness, but the child's strength.
In the Negro countenance you will often meet with strong traits of benignity. I have felt yearnings of tenderness towards some of these faces.
For thy sake tobacco I Would do anything but die.
I never knew an enemy to puns who was not an ill-natured man.
I remember an hypothesis argued upon by the young students, when I was at St. Omer's, and maintained with much learning and pleasantry on both sides, 'Whether supposing that the flavour of a big who o...
He is no lawyer who cannot take two sides.
Lawyers, I suppose, were children once.
Gorgons and Hydras, and Chimaeras—dire stories of Celaeno and the Harpies—may reproduce themselves in the brain of superstition—but they were there before. They are transcripts, types—the archetypes a...
If dirt was trumps what hands you would hold!
Anything awful makes me laugh. I misbehaved once at a funeral.
We do not go (to the theatre) like our ancestors to escape from the pressure of reality so much as to confirm our experience of it.
Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and have her nonsense respected.
I have been trying all my life to like Scotchmen and am obliged to desist from the experiment in despair.
Nothing puzzles me more than the time and space and yet nothing troubles me less.
The human species, according to the best theory I can form of it, is composed of two distinct races, the men who borrow and the men who lend.
The teller of a mirthful tale has latitude allowed him. We are content with less than absolute truth.
The greatest pleasure I know is to do a good action by stealth and to have it found out by accident.
We all have some taste or other of too ancient a date to admit of our remembering that it was an acquired one.
Cards are war, in disguise of a sport.
Neat not gaudy.
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