It will take mind and memory months and possibly years to gather together the details, and thus learn and know the whole extent of the loss.

Eat a live frog first thing in the morning and nothing worse will happen to you the rest of the day.

Really, what we want now, is not laws against crime, but a law against insanity. That is where the true evil lies.

It is believed by everyone that when he was in heaven he was stern, hard, resentful, jealous and cruel, but that when he came down to earth, he became the opposite... sweet, gentle merciful, forgiving. He was a thousand billion times crueler than ever he was in the Old Testament... Meek and gentle? By and by we will examine that popular sarcasm by the light of the hell which he invented.

It's good sportsmanship to not pick up lost golf balls while they are still rolling.

Intellectual food is like any other; it is pleasanter and more beneficial to take it with a spoon than a shovel.

Among other common lies, we have the silent lie - the deception which one conveys by simply keeping still and concealing the truth. Many obstinate truth-mongers indulge in this dissipation, imagining that if they speak no lie, they lie not at all.