Persecution was at least a sign of personal interest. Tolerance is composed of nine parts of apathy to one of brotherly love.
Cast your cares on God; that anchor holds.
I have found some of the best reasons I ever had for remaining at the bottom simply by looking at the men at the top.
Clever people seem not to feel the natural pleasure of bewilderment, and are always answering questions when the chief relish of a life is to go on asking them.
Every improvement in communication makes the bore more terrible.
Men will confess to treason, murder, arson, false teeth, or a wig. How many of them will own up to a lack of humor?
I know of no more disagreeable sensation than to be left feeling generally angry without anybody in particular to be angry at.
That is the consolation of a little mind; you have the fun of changing it without impeding the progress of mankind.
You cannot find, make or understand true friendship without having enemies.
Many people lose their tempers merely from seeing you keep yours.
Averageness is a quality we must put up with. Men march toward civilization in column formation, and by the time the van has learned to admire the masters the rear is drawing reluctantly away from the totem pole.
We do not mind our not arriving anywhere nearly so much as our not having any company on the way.
In middle life politics are not a mental acquisition; they are a temperament.
When temptations march monotonously in regiments, one waits for to pass.
If a large city can, after intense intellectual efforts, choose for its mayor a man who merely will not steal from it, we consider it a triumph of the suffrage.
The New York playgoer is a child of nature, and he has an honest and wholesome regard of whatever is atrocious in art.
Politics is a place of humble hopes and strangely modest requirements, where all are good who are not criminal and all are wise who are not ridiculously otherwise.
Sin in this country has been always said to be rather calculating than impulsive.
There ought to be some sign in a book about man, that the writer knows thoroughly one man at least.
Fill an author with a titanic fame and you do not make him titanic; you often merely burst him.
Women singly do a good deal of harm. Women in bulk are chastening.
As wounded men may limp through life, so our war minds may not regain the balance of their thoughts for decades.
By rights, satire is a lonely and introspective occupation, for nobody can describe a fool to the life without much patient self-inspection.
Persecution was at least a sign of personal interest.
Distaste sounds more emphatic when expressed as moral disapproval. With most of us the moral counterblast is nothing more than the angry rendering of a yawn.
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