horses: dangerous on both ends and crafty in the middle

It is hardly fair to blame America for the state of San Francisco, for its population is cosmopolitan and its seaport attracts the floating vice of the Pacific; but be the cause what it may, there is much room for spiritual betterment.

How wise and how merciful is that provision of nature by which his earthly anchor is usually loosened by many little imperceptible tugs, until his consciousness has drifted out of its untenable earthly harbor into the great sea beyond!

I must apologize for calling so late," said he, "and I must further beg you to be so unconventional as to allow me to leave your house presently by scrambling over your back garden wall.

I wanted to end the world but,I'll settle for ending yours.

The unexpected has happened so continually in my life that it has ceased to deserve the name.

For strange effects and extraordinary combinations we must go to life itself, which is always far more daring than any effort of the imagination.