How blind and unreasoning and arbitrary are some of the laws of nature – most of them in fact!
Mark Twain Quotes
A nation is only an individual multiplied.
Names are not always what they seem. The common Welsh name Bzjxxllwcp is pronounced Jackson.
And there are good and great men, no doubt, who put an initial for their first name, but the awful majority of men who do that, will lie, and swindle, and steal, just from a natural instinct.
All of us contain Music and Truth, but most of us can’t get it out.
We often feel sad in the presence of music without words; and often more than that in the presence of music without music.
We consider that any man who can fiddle all through one of those Virginia Reels without losing his grip, may be depended upon in any kind of musical emergency.
Maybe it’s not as bad as it sounds (when asked to comment on the music of Richard Wagner).
We are called the nation of inventors. And we are. We could still claim that title and wear its loftiest honors if we had stopped with the first thing we ever invented, which was human liberty.
Name the greatest of all the inventors: Accidents.
