Nevertheless, likin' is a tender plant, and never thrives long when watered with tears. Let the 'arth around your married happiness be moistened by the dews of kindness.
But even the falsest of men pay so much homage to truth as to seem its votaries.
It's wisest always to be so clad that our friends need not ask us for our names.
In America the taint of sectarianism lies broad upon the land. Not content with acknowledging the supremacy as the Deity, and with erecting temples in his honor, where all can bow down with reverence,...
Men are seldom struck by incongruities in their appearance any more than their own conduct.
Principles become modified in practise by facts.
Tis open before your eyes," returned the scout; "and he who knows it is not a niggard of its use. I have heard it said that there are men who read in books to convince themselves there is a God. I kno...
Mendacity and vulgarity can only permanently affect those who resort to their use. (Ch 17)
You are young, and rich, and have friends, and at such an age I know it is hard to die!
Is it justice to make evil, and then punish for it?
Content is a great fortifier of good looks.
Your young white, who gathers his learning from books and can measure what he knows by the page, may conceit that his knowledge, like his legs, outruns that of his fathers’, but, where experience is t...
History, like love, is so apt to surround her heroes with an atmosphere of imaginary brightness.
All greatness of character is dependent on individuality. The man who has no other existence than that which he partakes in common with all around him, will never have any other than any existence of...
CHAPTER IX.
That of all the 'oracies (aristocracy and democracy included) hypocrisy is the most flourishing.
Every trail has its end, and every calamity brings its lesson!
Happy hunting-grounds;
The novice in the military art flew from point to point, retarding his own preparations by the excess of his violent and somewhat distempered zeal; while the more practiced veteran made his arrangemen...
Čuo sam već šumu gdje jauče poput čovjeka koji se nađe u nevolji; slušao sam kako vjetar pjeva svoju pjesmu među granjem drveća; slušao sam munju kako praska poput upaljena grmlja, kad bljuje iskre i...