46 quotes found
“Compulsion is the death of friendship, joy.”
“There is so much ignorant prejudice against bees in a dining-room.”
“A foolish German had said that man thought in words. It was totally false; a pernicious doctrine; the thoughts flashed into being in a hundred simultaneous forms, with a thousand associations, and ...”
“How much better a man feels when he is mixed with halibut and leg of mutton and roebuck”
“You are to consider that a certain melancholy and often a certain irascibility accompany advancing age: indeed it might be said that advancing age equals ill-temper. On reaching the middle years a ...”
“The more a victory cost, the more it was esteemed.”