The men who learn endurance, are they who call the whole world brother.

Oh gracious, why wasn't I born old and ugly?

What is exaggeration to one class of minds and perceptions, is plain truth to another. That which is commonly called a long-sight, perceives in a prospect innu…

The serjeant was describing a military life. It was all drinking, he said, except that there were frequent intervals of eating and love-making.

A harbor, even if it is a little harbor, is a good thing, since adventurers come into it as well as go out, and the life in it grows strong, because it takes s…

I was hanging out the other night with a bunch of friends I've known forever. They were saying, 'Look at you. You've grown into a swan.' I looked at them and s…

We like rather to dream of a body of young men as a live thing, as a tree where all the branches are nourished by a single sap, and where each part is meaningl…