The Son of the Carpenter made the door of heaven so low that you must either take off your plumes or stoop humbly to enter it.
The worst misfortune that can happen to an ordinary man is to have an extraordinary father.
Civilization sails prettily like a child's rubber balloon until it hits a sharp object; then it is likely to collapse like the balloon.
The most dangerous savages live in cities.
Boards of public charity were invented by the devil to prevent real individual charity.
The American government is a rule of the people, by the people, for the bosses.
An Englishmen thinks seated; a Frenchmen standing; an American pacing, an Irishman, afterwards.
After thirty-five a man begins to have thoughts about women; before that he has feelings.
Art is awkward until technique has become an unconscious habit.
There is a form of literature that is a deed, and a form that is only talk, and the latter passes away like a conversation.
Moral progress is a process of isolation; the mountain tops are lonely.
A man's life is like a well, not like a snake--it should be measured by its depth, not by its length.
Prose is a photography, poetry is a painting in oil-colors.
Truth and eggs are useful only while they are fresh.
The three most important events of human life are equally devoid of reason: birth, marriage and death.
Most reformers, like a pair of trousers on a windy clothesline, go through a vast deal of vehement motion, but stay in the same place.
Patience is moral elasticity.
The Devil is not afraid to sit on an altar.
Life is a bubble in a lake, that glitters for an instant, bursts, and leaves not even a blur on the water; it is the leap of a minnow, which sends a tiny ripple trembling for a few inches.
Exclusiveness is a characteristic of recent riches, high society, and the skunk.
A home-made friend wears longer than one you buy in the market.
God shows his contempt for wealth by the kind of person he selects to receive it.
The habits of a young man are, like his coat, removable; the habits of an old man are like the drapery of a statue.
The living have their eyes opened by closing the eyes of the dead.
It is easier to prevent thistles and habits than to uproot them.
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