The New Testament is an invaluable book, though I confess to having been slightly prejudiced against it in my very early days by t...he church and the Sabbath-school, so that it seemed, before I read it, to be the yellowest book in the catalogue. Yet I early escaped from their meshes. It is hard to get the commentaries out of one's head and taste its true flavor.... It would be a poor story to be prejudiced against the Life of Christ because the book has been edited by Christians. In fact, I love this book rarely, though it is a sort of castle in the air to me, which I am permitted to dream.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Perhaps I am no one. True, I have a body... and I cannot escape from it. I would like to fly out of my head, but that is out of the question.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Steady labor with the hands, which engrosses the attention also, is unquestionably the best method of removing palaver and sentime...ntality out of one's style, both of speaking and writing.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It was awful thoughts, and awful words, but they was said. And I let them stay said, and never thought no more about reforming. I ...shoved the whole thing out of my head, and said I would take up wickedness again, which was in my line, being brung up to it, and the other warn't. And for a starter, I would go to work and steal Jim out of slavery again; and if I could think up anything worse, I would do that, too; because as long as I was in, and in for good, I might as well go the whole hog.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When one cannot appraise out of one's own experience, the temptation to blunder is minimized, but even when one can, appraisal see...ms chiefly useful as appraisal of the appraiser.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Now listen, buddy, there are a few corny ideas you got to get out of your head if you're going to fly an airplane. Most things are... just the reverse from what people think. The higher you are the safer you are. The Earth down there, that, that's your enemy because once you hit that, boy, you splatter.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I felt more than ever the necessity of my mission. But I went home out of spirits, I hardly know why. I must work by myself all li...fe long.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
"Dirty fellow!" exclaimed the Captain, seizing both her wrists, "hark you, Mrs. Frog, you'd best hold your tongue; for I must make... bold to tell you, if you don't, that I shall make no ceremony of tripping you out of the window, and there you may lie in the mud till some of your Monseers come to help you out of it."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »