It has always been a peculiarity of the human race that it keeps two sets of morals in stock-the private and the real, and the public and the artificial.

Conformity—the natural instinct to passively yield to that vague something recognized as authority.

He was a solemn, unsmiling, sanctimonious old iceberg who looked like he was waiting for a vacancy in the Trinity.

Seasickness: at first you are so sick you are afraid you will die, and then you are so sick you are afraid you won't die.

Which is him?" The grammar was faulty, maybe, but we could not know, then, that it would go in a book someday.

I think a compliment ought always to precede a complaint, where one is possible, because it softens resentment and insures for the complaint a courteous and gentle reception.

A good memory and a tongue tied in the middle is a combination which gives immortality to conversation.