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I am generally short and sweet—or short and sour, according as it may be and as opinions vary—

The clerk in the Tank involuntarily applauded. Becoming immediately sensible of the impropriety, he poked the fire, and extinguished the last frail spark for ever.

But, the time was not come yet; and every wind that blew over France shook their rags of the scarecrows in vain, for the birds, fine of song and feather, took no warning.

PREFACE TO THE 1857 EDITION I

I need say nothing here, on the first head, because nothing can show better than my history whether that prediction was verified or falsified by the result.

You don't object to an aged parent, I hope?" I really thought he was still speaking of the fowl, until he added, "Because I have got an aged parent at my place." I then said what politeness required.

I believe the power of observation in numbers of very young children to be quite wonderful for its closeness and accuracy. Indeed,

The United States is the greatest law factory the world has ever known.

For four years, I listened to stories of intelligence failures, and it wasn't due to incompetence of anyone in the system, but that the system is so arcane.

FAITH is the "eternal elixir" which gives life, power, and action to the impulse of thought!

No, to stop sin, you must replace your thoughts and tactics with His truth.

El Señor es el autor y consumador de nuestras vidas; no solo de nuestra fe, sino de todos los aspectos del potencial que ha levantado en nosotros.

To speak frankly, the family bond in the civilized regime causes fathers to desire the death of their children and children to desire the death of their fathers.

It is curious — curious that physical courage should be so common in the world, and moral courage so rare.

The chill of some vague fear was upon him.

My karma ran over your dogma.

"The Ancient Mariner" — This poem would not have taken so well if it had been called "The Old Sailor"...

And the strongest emotion was that life was as precious as it was puzzling. It was an ecstacy because it was an adventure; it was an adventure because it was an opportunity.

I... was seized very early with a passion for literature, which has been the ruling passion of my life, and the great source of my enjoyments.

The sermon is now the true poppy of literature.

...to strengthen his armour by the study of logic...

This is an excellent martini — sort of tastes like it isn't there at all, just a cold cloud.

Such histories as these do, in reality, very much resemble a newspaper, which consists of just the same number of words, whether there be any news in it or not...

The mercenaries and parasites of the Press, who prostitute its more than royal power, and dishonor a noble profession, will find it easy to mock at things too wonderful for them to understand; for to them the price of a paragraph is more than the value of sincerity.