Public opinion is stronger than the legislature, and nearly as strong as the ten commandments.

If there was any petting to be done...he chose to do it. Often he would sit looking at me, and then, moved by a delicate affection, come and pull at my coat and sleeve until he could touch my face with his nose, and then go away contented.

No man but feels more of a man in the world if he have a bit of ground that he can call his own. However small it is on the surface, it is four thousand miles deep; and that is a very handsome property.

Snobbery, being an aspiring failing, is sometimes the prophecy of better things.

There is no moment of delight in any pilgrimage like the beginning of it.

Nothing shows one who his friends are like prosperity and ripe fruit.

I am convinced that the majority of people would be generous from selfish motives, if they had the opportunity.