I wanted to flag you down because my friend was bleeding. Someone stabbed him."
Only some people get what they want. Those are the people who show up to get it.
There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.
To try to be better is to be better.
As I neared her, I bent to help her up, and was nearly knocked over her.
Do what you feel in your heart to be right - for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be damned if you do, and damned if you don't.
There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read.