There wouldn't be half as much fun in the world if it weren't for children and men, and there ain't a mite of difference between them under the skins.

Many of the men who had come to the wilderness to practice religion appeared to have forgotten its true nature.

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.

Do you know there is always a barrier between me and any man or woman who does not like dogs?

... the life of the mind is reality, and love without romantic illumination is a spiritless matter.

the great novels have marched with the years. They are the contemporaries of time.

though pleasure may be purchasable, happiness cannot be bought for a price.