Suddenly the nickel-clad horse takes the bit in its mouth and goes slanting for the curbstone defying all prayers and all your powers to change its mind - your heart stands still, your breath hangs fire, your legs forget to work.

It is higher and nobler to be kind.

The choir always tittered and whispered all through the service. There was once a church choir that was not ill-bred, but I have forgotten where it was.

Thunder is good, thunder is impressive; but it is lightning that does the work.

December is the toughest month of the year. Others are July, January, September, April, November, May, March, June, October, August, and February.

The older we grow the greater becomes our wonder at how much ignorance one can contain without bursting one's clothes.

There are no standards of taste in wine... Each man's own taste is the standard, and a majority vote cannot decide for him or in any slightest degree affect the supremacy of his own standard.