The teller of a mirthful tale has latitude allowed him. We are content with less than absolute truth.
New Year's Day is every man's birthday.
Man is a gaming animal. He must be always trying to get the better in something or other.
Books think for me.
Let us live for the beauty of our own reality.
To be sick is to enjoy monarchal prerogatives.
Man is a gaming animal.
Here cometh April again and as far as I can see the world hath more fools in it than ever.
The most mortifying infirmity in human nature ... is perhaps cowardice.
Think what you would have been now, if instead of being fed with tales and old wives' fables in childhood, you had been crammed with geography and natural history!
Nothing puzzles me more than time and space yet nothing troubles me less.
There is more reason to say grace before beginning a book than there is to say it before beginning to dine.
The most common error made in matters of appearance is the belief that one should disdain the superficial and let the true beauty of one's soul shine through. If there are places on your body where th...
Sentimentally I am disposed to harmony but organically I am incapable of a tune.
I love to lose myself in other men's minds.... Books think for me.
I am determined that my children shall be brought up in their father's religion, if they can find out what it is.
I always arrive late at the office, but I make up for it by leaving early.
The young man till thirty, never feels practically that he is mortal. He knows it indeed, and, if need were, he could preach a homily on the fragility of life; but he brings it not home to himself, an...
He might have proved a useful adjunct if not an ornament to society.
I have sat through an Italian opera til for sheer pain and inexplicable anguish I have rushed out into the noisiest places of the crowded street to solace myself with sounds which I was not oblig...