A sense of wrongdoing is an enhancement of pleasure.
Most persons have died before they expired - died to all earthly longings so that the last breath is only as it were the locking of the door of the already deserted mansion.
Truth, when not sought after, rarely comes to light.
Controversy equalizes fools and wise men - and the fools know it.
Every library should try to be complete on something, if it were only the history of pinheads.
The sound of a kiss is not so loud as that of a cannon, but its echo lasts a great deal longer.
Without wearing any mask we are conscious of, we have a special face for each friend.
A pun does not commonly justify a blow in return. But if a blow were given for such cause, and death ensued, the jury would be judges both of the facts and of the pun, and might, if the latter were of...
A sick man that gets talking about himself a woman that gets talking about her baby and an author that begins reading out of his own book never know when to stop.
The AmenT of Nature is always a flower.
Husband and wife come to look alike at last.
A weak mind does not accumulate force enough to hurt itself stupidity often saves a man from going mad.
rouble creates a capacity to handle it.
Rough work, iconoclasm, but the only way to get at truth.
Many people die with their music still in them. Why is this so? Too often it is because they are always getting ready to live. Before they know it, time runs out.
If there is any principle of the Constitution that more imperatively calls for attachment than any other it is the principle of free thought, not free thought for those who agree with us but freedom f...
Man has his will - but woman has her way.
Don't be consistent but be simply true.
Take your needle my child and work at your pattern it will come out a rose by and by. Life is like that one stitch at a time taken patiently and the pattern will come out all right like embroide...
One unquestioned text we read All doubt beyond all fear above Nor crackling pile nor cursing creed Can burn or blot it: God is Love.