Principles aren't of much account anyway, except at election time. After that you hang them up to let them season.
Take your mind out every now and then and dance on it. It is getting all caked up.
Thunder is good, thunder is impressive; but it is lightning that does the work.
The more I learn about people, the more I like my dog.
He had only one vanity; he thought he could give advice better than any other person.
Annihilation has no terrors for me, because I have already tried it before I was born --a hundred million years --and I have suffered more in an hour, in this life, than I remember to have suffered in the whole hundred million years put together.