There is nothing so carking as the pangs of unsatisfied curiosity.
Nowhere can it rain harder and with a more tiresome persistence than in California during the brief season when it rains at all.
Better extirpate the whole breed, root and branch. And this, unless the German people come to their senses, is what we propose to do.
fiction is not only the historian of life but its apologist.
No country can reach a high stage of civilization without a leisure class.
[Alexander] Hamilton estimated portrait painters as thieves of time.