Mario Lopez

To think is to practice brain chemistry.

The two parties which divide the state, the party of Conservatism and that of Innovation, are very old, and have disputed the possession of the world ever since it was made.

If you are in a poker game and after 20 minutes you don’t know who the patsy is, then you’re the patsy.

Let us work without theorizing, tis the only way to make life endurable.

Nothing is secure but life, transition, the energizing spirit.

Most of the shadows of life are caused by standing in our own sunshine.

Then spare the rod and spoil the child.

It is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.

There is nothing to fear except fear it’s self.

To watch this crystal globe just sent from heaven to associate with me. While these clouds and this somber drizzling weather shut all in, we two draw nearer and know one another. The gathering in of the clouds with the last rush and dying breath of the wind, and then the regular dripping of twigs and leaves the country over, the impression of inward comfort and Sociableness, the drenched stubble and trees that drop beads on you as you pass, their dim outline seen through the rain on all sides drooping in sympathy with yourself. These are my undisputed territory. This is Nature’s English comfort.

As to the adjective, when in doubt strike it out.

The cat, having sat upon a hot stove lid, will not sit upon a hot stove lid again. But he won’t sit upon a cold stove lid, either.

Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.

The moment we indulge our affections, the earth is metamorphosed, there is no winter and no night; all tragedies, all ennui s, vanish, all duties even.

Haste makes Work which Caution prevents.