Physical pain however great ends in itself and falls away like dry husks from the mind, whilst moral discords and nervous horrors sear the soul.

It is an immense loss to have all robust and sustaining expletives refined away from one! At. moments of trial refinement is a feeble reed to lean upon.

One has a greater sense of degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human experience.

The difficulty about all this dying, is that you can't tell a fellow anything about it, so where does the fun come in?

Though I have no productive worth, I have a certain value as an indestructible quantity.

When will women begin to have the first glimmer that above all other loyalties is the loyalty toTruth, i.e., to yourself, that husband, children, friends and countryare as nothing to that.

You must remember that a woman, by nature, needs much less to feed upon than a man, a few emotions and she is satisfied.

I wonder whether if I had an education I should have been more or less a fool that I am.

Truly nothing is to be expected except for the unexpected.

How fatally the entire want of humor cripples the mind.

I make it a rule always to believe compliments implicitly for five minutes, and to simmer gently for twenty more.

Paradox is the pathos or the passion of philosophy.

An owl sound wandered along the road with me.I didn't hear it--I breathed it into my ears.

In Texas, two things are cherished above all else- football and gossip.

I'd learned balance is internal

It's fun to play someone who seems evil and to reveal their vulnerabilities.

Fashion is one of the most beautiful forms of art we have. It's a form of art that every person gets to possess and create for themselves.

We can have no power from Christ unless we live in a persuasion that we have none of our own.

When a man gives himself up to the government of a ruling passion,--or, in other words, when his HOBBY-HORSE grows head- strong,--farewell cool reason and fair discretion.

I haven't read the 'Twilight' books. But it's everywhere so I feel like I know it. Edward, Bella, Jacob, etc. but... I haven't read them.

It was actually drumming that gave me the stamina to get into sports later.