It's dogged as does it. It ain't thinking about it.

Romance is very pretty in novels, but the romance of a life is always a melancholy matter. They are most happy who have no story to tell.

I never knew a government yet that wanted to do anything.

This habit of reading, I make bold to tell you, is your pass to the greatest, the purest, and the most perfect pleasure that God has prepared for His creatures. It lasts when all other pleasures fade. It will support you when all other recreations are gone. It will last until your death. It will make your hours pleasant to you as long as you live.

Till we can become divine, we must be content to be human, lest in our hurry for change we sink to something lower.

I doubt whether any girl would be satisfied with her lover's mind if she knew the whole of it.

Speaking of New York as a traveller I have two faults to find with it. In the first place there is nothing to see; and in the second place there is no mode of getting about to see anything.