~ It is easier to stay out than get out. ~  ~ You perceive I generalize with intrepidity from single instances. It is the tourist's custom. ~ ~ Often, the less there is to justify a traditional custom, the harder it is to get rid of it ~ ~ A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval. ~ ~ The face of the water, in time, became a wonderful book- a book that was a dead language to the uneducated passenger, but which told its mind to me without reserve, delivering its most cherished secrets as clearly as if it uttered them with a voice. And it was not a book to be read once and thrown aside, for it had a new story to tell every day ~ ~ The mania for giving the Government power to meddle with the private affairs of cities or citizens is likely to cause endless trouble, through the rivalry of schools and creeds that are anxious to obtain official recognition, and there is great danger that our people will lose our independence of thought and action which is the cause of much of our greatness, and sink into the helplessness of the Frenchman or German who expects his government to feed him when hungry, clothe him when naked, to prescribe when his child may be born and when he may die, and, in time, to regulate every act of humanity from the cradle to the tomb, including the manner in which he may seek future admission to paradise ~ ~ The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco. ~ ~ In the Spring, I have counted 136 different kinds of weather inside of 24 hours. ~ ~ I am opposed to millionaires, but it would be dangerous to offer me the position. ~ ~ All say, "How hard it is that we have to die" - a strange complaint to come from the mouths of people who have had to live. ~ ~ New Year's Day - Now is the accepted time to make your regular annual good resolutions. Next week you can begin paving hell with them as usual. ~ ~ Children have but little charity for one another's defects ~ ~ Independence - is loyalty to one's best self and principles, and this is often disloyalty to the general idols and fetishes ~ ~ Therein lies the defect of revenge: it's all in the anticipation; the thing itself is a pain, not a pleasure; at least the pain is the biggest end of it. ~ ~ Loyalty to petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul. ~ Most Popular Topics:
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