I've lived through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened.

An Englishman is a person who does things because they have been done before. An American is a person who does things because they haven't been done before.

The secret of getting ahead is getting started

You cant reach old age by another man's road, my habits protect my life but they would assassinate you

We can't always have the beautiful aspect of things. Let us make the most of our sights that are beautiful and let the others go

I cannot see the short, white curls Upon the forehead of an Ox, But what I see them dripping with That poor thing's blood, and hear the ax; When I see calves and lambs, I see Them led to death; I see no bird Or rabbit cross the open field But what a sudden shot is heard; A shout that tells me men aim true, For death or wound, doth chill me through. W.H. Davies I have been studying the traits and dispositions of the "lower animals" (so called) and contrasting them with the traits and dispositions of man. I find the result humiliating to me.

To place man properly at the present time, he stands somewhere between the angels and the French.