As always, the British especially shudder at the latest American vulgarity, and then they embrace it with enthusiasm two years later.

How noble the law, in its majestic equality, that both the rich and poor are equally prohibited from peeing in the streets, sleeping under bridges, and stealing bread!

Mockery is the weapon of those who have no other.

Never look down on anybody unless you're helping him up.

Although gold dust is precious, when it gets in your eyes it obstructs your vision.

Does the road wind up-hill all the way? Yes, to the very end. Will the day's journey take the whole long day? From morn to night, my friend.

In every age and clime we see, Two of a trade can ne'er agree.

He conquers who endures.

I've met a few people who had to change their jobs in order to change their lives, but I've met many more people who merely had to change their motive to service in order to change their lives.

I was learning the importance of names -- having them, making them -- but at the same time I sensed the dangers. Recognition was followed by oblivion, a yawning maw whose victims disappeared without a trace.

A dead atheist is someone who is all dressed up with no place to go.

Deep vengeance is the daughter of deep silence.

Man's greatness consists in his ability to do and the proper application of his powers to things needed to be done.

One doctor, singly like the sculler plies, The patient struggles, and by inches dies; But two physicians, like a pair of oars, Waft him right swiftly to the Stygian shores.

March: Its stone, Bloodstone.

If success attend me, grant me humility; If failure, resignation to Thy will.

That of all the floures in the mede, Thanne love I most these floures white and rede, Suche as men callen daysyes in her toune.

A woman's always younger than a man of equal years.

It is well go give when asked but it is better to give unasked, through understanding.

I had seen the great, but I had not seen the small.