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 compass in my head has been out of order since my birth.
The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy – give one and take ten.
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.
