There is nothing that saps one's confidence as the knowing how to do a thing

We wish to learn all the curious, outlandish ways of all the different countries, so that we can "show off" and astonish people when we get home. We wish to excite the envy of our untraveled friends with our strange foreign fashions which we can't shake off.

There are several good protections against temptation, but the surest is cowardice.

Let us not be too particular; it is better to have old secondhand diamonds than none at all.

In religion and politics, people's belief's and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second hand, and without examination

If there was two birds sitting on a fence, he would bet you which one would fly first.

Baseball is the very symbol, the outward and visible expression of the drive and push and rush and struggle of the raging, tearing, booming nineteenth century.