Love is a malady, the common symptoms of which are the same in all patients.

The earliest voice listened to by the nations in their infancy was the voice of the storyteller.

Books that children read but once are of scant service to them; those that have really helped to warm our imaginations and to train our faculties are the few old friends we know so well that they have become a portion of our thinking selves.

Personally, I do not believe that it is the duty of any man or woman to write a novel. In nine cases out of ten, there would be greater merit in leaving it unwritten.

If we could make up our minds to spare our friends all details of ill health, of money losses, of domestic annoyances, of altercations, of committee work, of grievances, provocations, and anxieties, we should sin less against the world's good-humor. It may not be given us to add to the treasury of mirth; but there is considerable merit in not robbing it.

I do strive to think well of my fellow man, but no amount of striving can give me confidence in the wisdom of a congressional vote.

People with theories of life are, perhaps, the most relentless of their kind, for no time or place is sacred from their devastating elucidations.