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Is ditchwater dull? Naturalists with microscopes have told me that it teems with quiet...
A turkey is more occult and awful than all the angels and archangels. In so far as God has partly revealed to us an...
There are many definite methods, honest and dishonest, which make people rich; the only instinct I know of which does...
True contentment is a thing as active as agriculture. It is the power of getting out of any situation all that there...
And we were angry and poor and happy,
And proud of seeing our names in print.
The road from heaven to Hereford
Where the apple wood of Hereford
Goes all the way to...
Cruelty is, perhaps, the worst kid of sin. Intellectual cruelty is certainly the worst kind of...
Man seems to be capable of great virtues but not of small virtues; capable of defying his torturer but not of keeping...
The greenhorn is the ultimate victor in everything; it is he that gets the most out of...
A great deal of contemporary criticism reads to me like a man saying: `Of course I do not like green cheese: I am very...
When you have really exhausted an experience you always reverence and love it. The two things that nearly all of us...
What people call impartiality may simply mean indifference, and what people call partiality may simply mean mental...
Youth is the period in which a man can be hopeless. The end of every episode is the end of the world. But the power of...
Earth will grow worse till men redeem it,
And wars more evil, ere all wars cease.
The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.
The disadvantage of men not knowing the past is that they do not know the present. History is a hill or high point of...
When we really worship anything, we love not only its clearness but its obscurity. We exult in its very...
Facts as facts do not always create a spirit of reality, because reality is a spirit.
The most dangerous criminal now is the entirely lawless modern philosopher. Compared to him, burglars and bigamists...
If our caricaturists do not hate their enemies, it is not because they are too big to hate them, but because their...