Modesty And Reverence Are No Less Virtues

But I Have Long Thought That If You Knew A Column Of Advertisements By Heart, You Could Achieve Unexpected Felicities With Them. You Can Get A Happy Quotation Anywhere If You Have The Eye.

We Have Been Cocksure Of Many Things That Were Not So.

No Generalization Is Wholly True—not Even This One.

Why Should You Row A Boat Race? Why Endure The Long Months Of Pain In Preparation For A Fierce Half Hour That Will Leave You All But Dead? Does Anyone Ask The Question? Is There Anyone Who Would Not Go Through All The Costs, And More, For The Moment When Anguish Breaks Into Triumph Or Even For The Glory Of Having Nobly Lost? Is Life Less Than A Boat Race? If A Man Will Give The Blood In His Body To Win The One, Will He Spend All The Might Of His Soul To Prevail In The Other?

If Wine Tells Truth - And So Have Said The Wise, It Makes Me Laugh To Think How Brandy Lies!