I hate a fellow whom pride or cowardice or laziness drives into a corner, and who does nothing when he is there but sit and growl. Let him come out as I do, and bark.

Dictionaries are like watches; the worst is better than none, and the best cannot be expected to go quite true.

Tom Birch is as brisk as a bee in conversation; but no sooner does he take a pen in his hand than it becomes a torpedo to him, and benumbs all his faculties.

The use of traveling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.

With patient inattention hear him prate.

One cannot think that blind bravery gives victory over the enemy.

Finally, she broke her silence and spelled it out to Dr. Burkley. Kneeling, John Kennedy's personal physician indicated her ghastly skirt with a trembling hand…