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| All the learnin' my father paid for was a bit o' birch at one end and an alphabet at the other. | | Family; Fathers | |
| Among all forms of mistake, prophecy is the most gratuitous | | Prophecy | |
| An age at which many men are not quite common - at which they are hopeful of achievement, resolute in avoidance, thinking that Mammon shall never put a bit in their mouths and get astride their backs, but rather that Mammon, if they have anything to | | Age | |
| An ass may bray a good while before he shakes the stars down | | Uncategorized | |
| And when a woman's will is as strong as the man's who wants to govern her, half her strength must be concealment. | | Uncategorized | |
| Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love. | | Jealousy | |
| Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms | | Animals; Friendship | |
| Any coward can fight a battle when he's sure of winning, but give me the man who has pluck to fight when he's sure of losing. That's my way, sir; and there are many victories worse than a defeat. | | Uncategorized | |
| Be courteous, be obliging, but don't give yourself over to be melted down for the benefit of the tallow trade | | Courtesy | |
| Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul; unbelief, in denying them. | | Belief | |
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| Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another. | | Love | |
| Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving us worthy evidence of the fact. | | Uncategorized | |
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| Boots and shoes are the greatest trouble of my life. Everything else one can turn and turn about, and make old look like new; but there's no coaxing boots and shoes to look better than they are. | | Uncategorized | |
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| But human experience is usually paradoxical, that means incongruous with the phrases of current talk or even current philosophy. | | Uncategorized | |
| But most of us are apt to settle within ourselves that the man who blocks our way is odious, and not to mind causing him a little of the disgust which his personality excites in ourselves. | | Uncategorized | |
| But that intimacy of mutual embarrassment, in which each feels that the other is feeling something, having once existed, its effect is not to be done away with. | | Uncategorized | |
