Arguments only confirm people in their own opinions.
Arguments only confirm people in their own opinions.
Destiny has a constant passion for the incongruous.
Mystics always hope that science will some day overtake them.
There are two things that will be believed of any man whatsoever, and one of them is that he has taken to drink.
Cherish all your happy moments; they make a fine cushion for old age.
But her correctness was of the finer sort, and had no air of being studied or achieved conduct would never offer her a problem to be settled from a book of rules, for the rules were so deep within her that she was unconscious of them.
He had not yet learned that the only safe male rebuke to a scornful female is to stay away from her - especially if that is what she desires.
Youth cannot imagine romance apart from youth.
Take your work seriously but never take yourself seriously and do not take what happens either to yourself or your work seriously
So long as we can lose any happiness, we possess some.
For the first time she was vaguely perceiving that life is everlasting movement.
One of the hardest conditions of boyhood is the almost continuous strain put upon the powers of invention by the constant and harassing necessity for explanations of every natural act.
An ideal wife is any woman who has an ideal husband.
The only good in pretending is the fun we get out of fooling ourselves that we fool somebody.
Boyhood is the longest time in life for a boy. The last term of the school-year is made of decades, not of weeks, and living through them is like waiting for the millennium.
. . . most of the houses of the Midland town were of a pleasant architecture. They lacked style, but also lacked pretentiousness, and whatever does not pretend at all has style enough.
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