Try as you may, you don't get down as you would from a horse, you get down as you would from a house afire. You make a spectacle of yourself every time.
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Everybody yelled at him, and laughed at him, and sassed him, and he sassed back, and said he'd attend to them and lay them out in their regular turns, but he couldn't wait now, because he'd come to town to kill old Colonel Sherburn, and his motto was, "Meat first, and spoon vittles to top off on."
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in Quotes & Aphorisms (Wisdom)
Not a single right is indestructible: a new might can at any time abolish it, hence, man possesses not a single permanent right.
God is Might (and He is shifty, malicious, and uncertain).
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The best of us would rather be popular than right.
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Herodotus says: "Very few things happen at the right time, and the rest do not happen at all. The conscientious historian will correct these defects".
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Before taking final leave of me, my instructor inquired concerning my physical strength, and I was able to inform him that I hadn't any.
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in Quotes & Aphorisms (Soul)
You cannot lay bare your private soul and look at it. You are too much ashamed of yourself. It is too disgusting. For that reason I confine myself to drawing the portraits of others.
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in Quotes & Aphorisms (Life)
Carlyle said "a lie cannot live." It shows that he did not know how to tell them. If I had taken out a life policy on this one the premiums would have bankrupted me ages ago.
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I haven't a particle of confidence in a man who has no redeeming petty vices whatsoever.
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It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world, and moral courage so rare.
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