The select natures who pant after the ideal, and find nothing in pantaloons or petticoats great enough to command their reverence and love, are curiously in unison with the narrowest and pettiest.

We have all got to exert ourselves a little to keep sane, and call things by the same names as other people call them by.

It's them as take advantage that get advantage I' this world, I think: folks have to wait long enough afore it's brought to 'em.

Don't you meddle with me, and I won't meddle with you.

Fatally powerful as religious systems have been, human nature is stronger and wider, and though dogmas may hamper they cannot absolutely repress its growth.

In spite of his practical ability, some of his experience had petrified into maxims and quotations.

Pride helps us; and pride is not a bad thing when it only urges us to hide our own hurts—not to hurt others.