The men are mostly so slow, their thoughts overrun 'em, an' they can only catch 'em by the tail. I can count a stocking-top while a man's getting's tongue ready; an' when he outs wi' his speech at last, there's little broth to be made on't. It's your dead chicks take the longest hatchin'.

Adventure is not outside man; it is within.

It always seemed to me a sort of clever stupidity only to have one sort of talent - like a carrier pigeon.

The human soul is hospitable, and will entertain conflicting sentiments and contradictory opinions with much impartiality.

That by desiring what is perfectly good, even when we don't quite know what it is and cannot do what we would, we are part of the divine power against evil -- widening the skirts of light and making the struggle with darkness narrower.

Solomon's Proverbs, I think, have omitted to say, that as the sore palate findeth grit, so an uneasy consciousness heareth innuendos.

It is better - it shall be better with me because I have known you.