Men write many fine and plausible arguments in support of monarchy, but the fact remains that where every man has a voice, brutal laws are impossible

It is not like studying German, where you mull along, in a groping, uncertain way, for thirty years; and at last, just as you think you've got it, they spring the subjunctive on you, and there you are. No- and I see now plainly enough, that the great pity about the German language is, that you can't fall off it and hurt yourself. There is nothing like that feature to make you attend strictly to business.

Get a bicycle. You will not regret it, if you live.

I have thought many times since that if poets when they get discouraged would blow their brains out, they could write very much better when they got well.

It is curious and interesting to notice what an attraction a fussy, mincing, nickel-plated word has for you.

The insincerity of man-all men are liars, partial or hiders of facts, half tellers of truths, shirks, moral sneaks. When a merely honest man appears he is a comet-his fame is eternal-needs no genius, no talent-mere honesty

All religions issue bibles again Satan, and say the most injurious things against him, but we never hear his side.