The first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it as such without a single doubt.
There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?
I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
When you have got an elephant by the hind leg, and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run.
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
It is not much for its beauty that makes a claim upon men's hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanates from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit.
I shouted, and earned a hard thump on my head for my trouble.
