I make it a rule always to believe compliments implicitly for five minutes, and to simmer gently for twenty more.

How fatally the entire want of humor cripples the mind.

I make it a rule always to believe compliments implicitly for five minutes, and to simmer gently for twenty more.

I wonder whether if I had an education I should have been more or less a fool that I am.

Truly nothing is to be expected except for the unexpected.

Physical pain however great ends in itself and falls away like dry husks from the mind, whilst moral discords and nervous horrors sear the soul.

One has a greater sense of degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human experience.