“It put our energies to sleep and made visionaries of us - dreamers and...” — Mark Twain Quote

It put our energies to sleep and made visionaries of us - dreamers and indolent... It is good to begin life poor; it is good to begin life rich - these are wholesome; but to begin it prospectively rich! The man who has not experienced it cannot imagine the curse of it.

Sanity and happiness are an impossible combination.

George Washington, as a boy, was ignorant of the commonest accomplishments of youth. He could not even lie.

What is the difference between a taxidermist and a tax collector? The taxidermist takes only your skin.

Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits.

A man cannot make a pair of shoes rightly unless he do it in a devout manner.

Miracles, in the sense of phenomena we cannot explain, surround us on every hand: life itself is the miracle of miracles.

Humility is a grace that shines in a high condition but cannot, equally, in a low one because a person in the latter is already, perhaps, too much humbled.

What is right to be done cannot be done too soon.

There is no subject so old that something new cannot be said about it.