I sometimes think novelists write about sex in order to avoid boring themselves to death.
During the War of the Rebellion, a new and influential club was established in the city of Baltimore in the State of Maryland
In lighthearted countries, people joked about this phenomenon, but such serious, practical countries as England, America, and Germany were deeply concerned.
Great robbers always resemble honest folk. Fellows who have rascally faces have only one course to take, and that is to remain honest; otherwise, they would be arrested off-hand.
If there were no thunder, men would have little fear of lightning.
[we see that] science is eminently perfectible, and that each theory has constantly to give way to a fresh one.
Nothing is more dreadful than private duels in America. The two adversaries attack each other like wild beasts. Then it is that they might well covet those wonderful properties of the Indians of the prairies - their quick intelligence, their ingenious cunning, their scent of the enemy.
Obscenity is a notable enhancer of life and is suppressed at grave peril to the arts.
Trust me, sunscreen is so, so, so important and so I always wear sunscreen, but I still get really tan.
Women are sometimes drawn in to believe against probability by the unwillingness they have to doubt their own merit.
We all think we’re going to be great and we feel a little bit robbed when our expectations aren’t met. But sometimes our expectations sell us short. Sometimes the expected simply pales in comparison to the unexpected. You got to wonder why we cling to our expectations, because the expected is just what keeps us steady. Standing. Still. The expected's just the beginning, the unexpected is what changes our lives.