A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way.

If your mother tells you to do a thing, it is wrong to reply that you won't. It is better and more becoming to intimate that you will do as she bids you, and then afterwards act quietly in the matter according to the dictates of your better judgment.

No sane man can be happy, for to him life is real, and he sees what a fearful thing it is.

Which is him?" The grammar was faulty, maybe, but we could not know, then, that it would go in a book someday.

I don't want my girl to be so skinny she can knife me with her knee.

There are 869 different forms of lying, but only one of them has been squarely forbidden. Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor.

How empty is theory in the presence of fact!