Comedy deflates the sense precisely so that the underlying lubricity and malice may bubble to the surface.
Well, I feel that we should always put a little art into what we do. It's better that way.
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.
I feel like I have the greatest life an artist could dream of.
She wasn't bitter. She was sad, though. But it was a hopeful kind of sad. The kind of sad that just takes time.
But we have nothing of the Spirit except through regeneration. Everything, therefore, which we have from nature is flesh.
Walking in humility isn't focusing on what we are NOT; rather, it's declaring what God is.