What a curious kind of fool a girl is. Never been licked in school. What's a licking?

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

I wish I could make him understand that a loving good heart is riches enough, and that without it intellect is poverty.

It's awful undermining to the intellect, German is; you want to take it in small doses, or first you know your brains all run together, and you feel them flapping around in your head same as so much drawn butter.

But it was ever thus, all through my life: whenever I have diverged from custom and principle and uttered a truth, the rule has been that the hearer hadn't strength of mind enough to believe it.

Word it as softly as you please, the spirit of patriotism is the spirit of the dog and wolf. The moment there is a misunderstanding about a boundary line or a hamper of fish or some other squalid matter, see patriotism rise, and hear him split the universe with is war-whoop. The spirit of patriotism being in its nature jealous and selfish, is just in man's line, it comes natural to him - he can live up to all its requirements to the letter; but the spirit of Christianity is not in its entirety possible to him.

As a rule, we go about with masks, we go about looking honest, and we are able to conceal ourselves all through the day.