Troubles are exceedingly gregarious in their nature, and flying in flocks are apt to perch capriciously.

It is because I think so much of warm and sensitive hearts, that I would spare them from being wounded.

I think it impossible, utterly impossible, for any Englishman to live here [in America], and be happy.

May I tell you why it seems to me a good thing for us to remember wrong that has been done us? That we may forgive it.

"Some persons hold," he pursued, still hesitating, "that there is a wisdom of the Head, and that there is a wisdom of the Heart..."

Do all the good you can and make as little fuss about it as possible.

It is the last straw that breaks the camel's back.