I can find my biography in every fable that I read.

It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.

The only way to have a friend is to be one.

The chief mourner does not always attend the funeral.

To fill the hour,-that is happiness; to fill the hour, and leave no crevice for a repentance or an approval.

The sun shines and warms and lights us and we have no curiosity to know why this is so; but we ask the reason of all evil, of pain, and hunger, and mosquitoes and silly people.

An institution is the lengthened shadow of one man.

Every man is entitled to be valued by his best moment.

Every violation of truth is not only a sort of suicide in the liar, but is a stab at the health of human society.

Man is physically as well as metaphysically a thing of shreds and patches, borrowed unequally from good and bad ancestors, and a misfit from the start.