It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world, and moral courage so rare.

Laws are sand, customs are rock. Laws can be evaded and punishment escaped, but an openly transgressed custom brings sure punishment.

The rule is perfect: in all matters of opinion our adversaries are insane.

Customs do not concern themselves with right or wrong or reason. But they have to be obeyed; one reasons all around them until he is tired, but he must not tra…

Ninety-five percent of people who walk the earth are simply inert. One percent are saints, and one percent are assholes. The other three percent are people who…

He had never disagreed with anyone in his life, no matter how unfairly they may have treated him. He preferred to swallow his tears, suppress his anger and bit…

In sober state, Through the sequestered vale of rural life, The venerable patriarch guileless held The tenor of his way.