Bret Harte Quotes

One big vice in a man is apt to keep out a great many smaller ones.

Which I wish to remark - And my language is plain - That for ways that are dark And for tricks that are vain The heathen Chinese is peculiar.

Never a tear bedims the eye That time and patience will not dry.

If, of all words of tongue and pen,The saddest are, 'It might have been,'More sad are these we daily see:'It is, but hadn't ought to be.