We should always be aware that what now lies in the past once lay in the future.
PITIFUL, adj. The state of an enemy or opponent after an imaginary encounter with oneself.
DISCUSSION, n. A method of confirming others in their errors.
TEDIUM, n. Ennui, the state or condition of one that is bored. Many fanciful derivations of the word have been affirmed, but so high an authority as Father Jape says that it comes from a very obvious source --the first words of the ancient Latin hymn _Te Deum Laudamus_. In this apparently natural derivation there is something that saddens.
Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.
Convent - a place of retirement for women who wish for leisure to meditate upon the sin of idleness.
Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage.
No more soul-destroying doctrine could well be devised than the doctrine that sinners can regenerate themselves, and repent and believe just when they please.
Love personalizes all that it loves. Only by personalizing it can we fall in love with an idea.
May God blast anyone who writes a biography of me.
I have often had occasion to remark the fortitude with which women sustain the most overwhelming reverses of fortunes.