Tom Birch is as brisk as a bee in conversation; but no sooner does he take a pen in his hand, than it becomes a torpedo to him, and benumbs all his faculties.

The biggest mischief in the past century has been perpetrated by Rousseau with his doctrine of the goodness of human nature. The mob and the intellectuals derived from it the vision of a Golden Age which would arrive without fail once the noble human race could act according to its whims.

I despise the pleasure of pleasing people that I despise.

Happiness resides not in possessions and not in gold, the feeling of happiness dwells in the soul. -Democritus.

It's how we spend our time here and now, that really matters. If you are fed up with the way you have come to interact with time, change it.

A spark neglected has often raised a conflagration.

With ravish'd ears The monarch hears, Assumes the god, Affects to nod, And seems to shake the spheres.

It is a man's world, and you men can have it.

The rate at which a person can mature is directly proportional to the embarrassment he can tolerate.

Or, if there were a sympathy in choice, War, death, or sickness did lay siege to it, Making it momentany as a sound, Swift as a shadow, short as any dream, Brief as the lightning in the collied night, That, in a spleen, unfolds both heaven and earth, And ere a man hath power to say 'Behold!' The jaws of darkness do devour it up: So quick bright things come to confusion.

In the great department store of life, baseball is the toy department.

Dogs have masters.Cats have staff.

I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it.

The Boys and the Frogs Some boys, playing near a pond, saw a number of Frogs in the water and began to pelt them with stones. They killed several of them, when one of the Frogs, lifting his head out of the water, cried out: Pray stop, my boys: what is sport to you, is death to us.

It was the first Tuesday in August. The Nebraska heat rolled in upon one like the engulfing waves of a dry sea,--a thick material substance against which one seemed to push when moving about.

Humility is like underwear; essential, but indecent if it shows.

He who is hated by all can not expect to live long.

For rhyme the rudder is of verses, With which, like ships, they steer their courses.

The earth is given as a common for men to labor and live in.

I love the language, that soft bastard Latin, Which melts like kisses from a female mouth.