What sense of superiority it gives one to escape reading some book which every one else is reading.

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.

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.

How fatally the entire want of humor cripples the mind.

You can get what you want.

My father wouldn't get us a TV, he wouldn't allow a TV in the house.

Of fight or fly, This choice is left ye, to resist or die.

My trunk, valises and my mind are overpacked.

Pay close attention to when you're being the real you & when you're trying to impress an invisible jury.

Of all things there remains to me only honor and life which is safe.

First, the American legislative process isn't well suited to large and complex measures.

Nothing to be gained by worrying between now and then.

The recycling of resource by the aggregate behavior of a diverse array of agents is much more than the sum of the individual actions.

If you have something about yourself that's different, you're lucky. It's not a curse.