Aesthetics

"Barring that natural expression of villainy which we all have, the man looked honest enough."

"He is now fast rising from affluence to poverty."

"Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run."

"Brief Biographical Sketch of George Washington", The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County, and Other Sketches (1867), ed. John Paul"

"He was ignorant of the commonest accomplishments of youth. He could not even lie."

"I don't see no p'ints about that frog that's any better'n any other frog."

"I'll risk forty dollars that he can outjump any frog in Calaveras county."

"I haven't a particle of confidence in a man who has no redeeming petty vices whatsoever."

"A simile committing suicide is always a depressing spectacle."

"Most modern calendars mar the sweet simplicity of our lives by reminding us that each day that passes is the anniversary of some perfectly uninteresting event."

"A poet can survive everything but a misprint."

"Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative."

"A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it."

"If it took Labouchere three columns to prove that I was forgotten, then there is no difference between fame and obscurity."

"Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it."

"Kannst du nicht allen gefallen durch deine That und dein Kunstwerk, // Mach es wenigen recht, vielen gefallen ist schlimm."

"The joke loses everything when the joker laughs himself."

"The problems of deafness are deeper and more complex, if not more important, than those of blindness.Deafness is a much worse misfortune. For it means the loss of the most vital stimulus"

"One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar."

"Painting is poetry which is seen and not heard, and poetry is a painting which is heard but not seen. These two arts, you may call them both either poetry or painting, have here interchanged the sense…"