The gods do not visit you to remind you what you know already.
Mad folks are often as dangerous as bad ones.
(imp. & p. p.) of Select
Sentimentality is a quality that rarely has the slightest influence on action.
Let mental suffering be intense enough, and it becomes a sort of carminative.
But these are sad times, the 'prentices wanting to be masters, and every little tradesman wanting to be a Senator, and every dirty little urchin thinking he can giveimpudence to his betters!
There had always been something rather brutal about (..._) common sense.
A bad conscience makes a very good ghost.
So fine a medicine is the will to action.
It shocked his sense of dramatic economy that they should have to resort to violence when the same result could have been obtained by a minimum expenditure of energy.
Used every man according to his capacity.
