There have been innumerable Temporary Seekers after the Truth-have you ever heard of a permanent one?

Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.

Let me make the superstitions of a nation and I care not who makes its laws or its songs either.

The very "marks" on the bottom of a piece of rare crockery are able to throw me into a gibbering ecstasy.

You can tell German wine from vinegar by the label.

It is hopeless for the occasional visitor to try to keep up with Chicago-she outgrows his prophecies faster than he can make them. She is always a novelty; for she is never the Chicago you saw when you passed through the last time.

You see, he knew his own laws just as other people so often know the laws: by words, not by effects. They take a meaning, and get to be very vivid, when you come to apply them to yourself.