So scented the grim Feature, and upturn'd His nostril wide into the murky air, Sagacious of his quarry from so far.
Lack of education is an extraordinary handicap when one is being offensive.
The truth of anything at all doesn't lie in someone's account of it. It lies in all the small facts of the time. An advertisement in a paper, the sale of a house, the price of a ring.
Horse sense is the instinct that keeps horses from betting on men.
It is the utterly destructive quality. When you say vanity, you are thinking of the kind that admires itself in mirrors and buys things to deck itself out in. But that is merely personal conceit. Real vanity is something quite different. A matter not of person but of personality. Vanity says, "I must have this because I am me. " It is a frightening thing because it is incurable.
Nothing great ever came out of common sense.
Most people's first books are their best anyways. It's the one they wanted most to write.
Dead fish don't swim around in jealous tides.
Reciprocity is a deep instinct; it is the basic currency of social life.
Free speech is the cornerstone to every right we have.
Whoever embarks with women embarks with a storm; but they are themselves the safety boats.