The dog is a gentleman; I hope to go to his heaven, not man’s.
Mark Twain Quotes
It takes me along time to lose my temper, but once lost I could not find it with a dog.
A half-educated physician is not valuable. He thinks he can cure everything.
I’m glad I did it, partly because it was worth it, but mostly because I shall never have to do it again.
Distance lends enchantment to the view.
What is there that confers the noblest delight? What is that which swells a man’s breast with pride above that which any other experience can bring to him? Discovery! To know that you are walking where none others have walked.
I ran away twice; once at about 13, and once at 17. There is not much satisfaction in it, even as a recollection. It was a couple of disappointments, particularly the first one. The heroics squish out of such things so promptly.
The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy – give one and take ten.
The compass in my head has been out of order since my birth.
He had discovered a great law of human action, without knowing it- namely, in order to make a man or a boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to attain.
