We are discreet sheep; we wait to see how the drove is going, and then go with the drove.
To do something, say something, see something, before anybody else – these are things that confer a pleasure compared with which other pleasures are tame and commonplace, other ecstasies cheap and trivial.
There are no people who are quite so vulgar as the over-refined.
He has been a doctor a year now and has had two patients, no, three, I think – yes, it was three; I attended their funerals.
Heaven goes by favor. If it went by merit, you would stay out and your dog would go in.
The very ink with which history is written is merely fluid prejudice.
Let us make a special effort to stop communicating with each other, so we can have some conversation.
A man can seldom – very, very, seldom – fight a winning fight against his training; the odds are too heavy.
It is by the goodness of God that we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.
Hardly a man in the world has an opinion upon morals, politics or religion which he got otherwise than through his associations and sympathies. Broadly speaking, there are none but corn-pone opinions. And broadly speaking, Corn-Pone stands for Self-Approval. Self-approval is acquired mainly from the approval of other people. The result is Conformity.
Ignorant people think it is the noise which fighting cats make that is so aggravating, but it ain’t so; it is the sickening grammar that they use.
We had the sky up there, and we used to lay on our backs and look up at them, and discuss whether they was made or just happened.
All generalizations are false, including this one.
Truth is neither alive nor dead; it just aggravates itself all the time.
Obscurity and competence: That is the life that is worth living.
When a person cannot deceive himself the chances are against his being able to deceive other people.
Name the greatest of all inventors. Accident.
Principles have no real force except when one is well-fed.
More than once I had seen a noble who had gotten his enemy at a disadvantage stop to pray before cutting his throat.
I am opposed to millionaires, but it would be dangerous to offer me the position.
Sometimes too much to drink is barely enough.
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