I like to think I am well-mannered. If I have the option at a breakfast place, I'll go with the grits. That's how Southern I am.
In all countries where nature does the most, man does the least.
True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.
Money is the most envied, but the least enjoyed. Health is the most enjoyed, but the least envied.
Time is the most undefinable yet paradoxical of things; the past is gone, the future is not come, and the present becomes the past, even while we attempt to define it.
Wealth after all is a relative thing since he that has little and wants less is richer than he that has much and wants more.
He that is good will infallibly become better, and he that is bad will as certainly become worse; for vice, virtue, and time are three things that never stand still.
It would be preposterously naive to suggest that a B. A. can be made as attractive to girls as a marriage license.
If you look at any ancient civilization, they've all used fantasy stories to train the young.
The superstition that the hounds of truth will rout the vermin of error seems, like a fragment of Victorian lace, quaint, but too brittle to be lifted out of the showcase.
Poetry, which is written while no one is looking, is meant to be looked at for all time.