49 quotes found
“I take a simple view of life. It is keep your eyes open and get on with it.”
“Men tire themselves in pursuit of rest.”
“Now don't let us give ourselves a parcel of airs, and pretend that the oaths we make free with in this land of liberty of ours are our own; and because we have the spirit to swear them,imagine that...”
“Great wits jump”
“Of all the cants which are canted in this canting world - though the cant of hypocrites ihay be the worst - the cant of criticism is the most tormenting.”
“Only the brave know how to forgive. ... A coward never forgave it is not in his nature.”
“God tempers the wind to the shorn lamb.”
“Every time a man smiles and much more when he laughs it adds something to his fragment of life.”
“Pain and pleasure like light and darkness succeed each other.”
“Philosophy has a fine saying for everything - for Death it has an entire set.”
“A man cannot dress without his ideas get clothed at the same time.”
“Now or never was the time.”
“This world surely is wide enough to hold both thee and me.”
“Writing when properly managed (as you may be sure I think mine is) is but a different name for conversation.”
“Crack, crackcrack, crackcrack, crackso this is Paris! quoth I (continuing in the same mood)and this is Paris!humph!Paris! cried I, repeating the name the third time The first, the finest, the most ...”
“Keyholes are the occasions of more sin and wickedness, than all other holes in this world put together.”
“Respect for ourselves guides our morals, respect for others guides our manners.”
“—all I can say of the matter, is—That he has either a pumkin for his head—or a pippin for his heart,—and whenever he is dissected 'twill be found so.”
“—I won't go about to argue the point with you,—'tis so,—and I am persuaded of it, madam, as much as can be, "That both man and woman bear pain or sorrow, (and, for aught I know, pleasure too) best ...”
“I begin with writing the first sentence—and trusting to Almighty God for the second.”
