Censorship, like charity, should begin at home; but, unlike charity, it should end there.
If you refuse to be made straight when you are green, you will not be made straight when you are dry.
One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.
Resolve to edge in a little reading every day, if it is but a single sentence. If you gain fifteen minutes a day, it will make itself felt at the end of the year.
My eyes swam and watered and I literally couldn't breathe through the pain.
We require from buildings two kinds of goodness: first, the doing their practical duty well: then that they be graceful and pleasing in doing it.
He who boasts of his ancestry is praising the deeds of another.