A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court Quotes

You can’t reason with your heart; it has its own laws, and thumps about things which the intellect scorns.

You can’t depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.

Words are only painted fire; a look is the fire itself. She gave that look, and carried it away to the treasury of heaven, where all things that are divine belong.

The citizen who thinks he sees that the commonwealth’s political clothes are worn out, and yet holds his peace and does not agitate for a new suit, is disloyal; he is a traitor.

My kind of loyalty was loyalty to one’s country, not to its institutions or its office-holders. The country is the real thing, the substantial thing, the eternal thing; it is the thing to watch over, and care for, and be loyal to; institutions are extraneous, they are its mere clothing, and clothing can wear out, become ragged, cease to be comfortable, cease to protect the body from winter, disease, and death.

Many a small thing has been made large by the right kind of advertising.

How empty is theory in presence of fact!