Damn the subjunctive. It brings all our writers to shame.

If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way.

One learns peoples through the heart, not the eyes or the intellect.

The time to begin writing an article is when you have finished it to your satisfaction. By that time you begin to clearly and logically perceive what it is you really want to say.

We get our morals from books. I didn't get mine from books, but I know that morals do come from books- theoretically at least.

What a world of trouble those who never marry escape! There are many happy matches, it is true, and sometimes "my dear," and "my love" come from the heart; but what sensible bachelor, rejoicing in his freedom and years of discretion, will run the tremendous risk?

All generalizations are false, including this one.