It is not of so much consequence what you say, as how you say it. Memorable sentences are memorable on account of some single irradiating word.

To-day is always different from yesterday.

In the entire circle of the year there are no days so delightful as those of a fine October, when the trees are bare to the mild heavens, and the red leaves bestrew the road, and you can feel the breath of winter, morning and evening - no days so calm, so tenderly solemn, and with such a reverent meekness in the air.

Good-humor and, generosity carry day with the popular heart all the world over.

Trifles make up the happiness or the misery of mortal life.

The only thing a man knows is himself.

Style, after all, rather than thought, is the immortal thing in literature.