Beware the horns of a bull, the heels of the horse, and the smile of an Englishman.

One great part of every human existence is passed in a state which cannot be rendered sensible by the use of wideawake language, cutanddry grammar and goahead plot.

His soul swooned slowly as he heard the snow falling faintly through the universe and faintly falling, like the descent of their last end, upon all the living and the dead.

There is only one thing that makes any one athlete better than another, his heart. We all put our underwear on feet first, so we are all human.

Fall if you will, but rise you must.

The mouth can be better engaged than with a cylinder of rank weed.

Every night as I gazed up at the window I said softly to myself the word paralysis. It had always sounded strangely in my ears, like the word gnomon in the Euclid and the word simony in the Catechism. But now it sounded to me like the name of some maleficent and sinful being. It filled me with fear, and yet I longed to be nearer to it and to look upon its deadly work.