A man is lucky if he is the first love of a woman. A woman is lucky if she is the last love of a man.

So, Mr. Chadband-of whom the persecutors say that it is no wonder he should go on for any length of time uttering such abominable nonsense, but that the wonder rather is that he should ever leave off, having once the audacity to begin-retires into private life until he invests a little capital of supper in the oil-trade.

A contented spirit is the sweetness of existence.

The Northern onslaught upon slavery was no more than a piece of specious humbug designed to conceal its desire for economic control of the Southern states.

Wen you're a married man, Samivel, you'll understand a good many things as you don't understand now; but vether it's worth while goin' through so much to learn so little, as the charity-boy sand ven he go to the end of the alphabet, it's a matter of taste.

We must leave the discovery of this mystery, like all others, to time, and accident, and Heaven's pleasure.

A man ain't got no right to be a public man, unless he meets the public views.