But youth isn't happy. Youth is sadder than age.

Surely one of the peculiar habits of circumstances is the way they follow, in their eternal recurrence, a single course. If an event happens once in a life, it may be depended upon to repeat later its general design.

anger and jealousy are spasms of the nerves, not of the heart.

audacity is of all qualities the most youthful.

you can't fit the same religion to every man any mo' than you can the same pair of breeches. The big man takes the big breeches an' the little man takes the small ones, an' it's jest the same with religion. It may be cut after one pattern, but it's might apt to get its shape from the wearer inside. Why, thar ain't any text so peaceable that it ain't drawn blood from somebody.

Words, like acts, become stale when they are repeated.

A good novel cannot be too long or a bad novel too short.