Best friend, my well-spring in the wilderness!

I protest against any absolute conclusion.

A patronizing disposition always has its meaner side.

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

Trouble comes to us all in this life: we set our hearts on things which it isn't God's will for us to have, and then we go sorrowing.

Whatever may be the success of my stories, I shall be resolute in preserving my incognito, having observed that a nom de plume secures all the advantages without the disagreeables of reputation.

Falsehood is so easy, truth so difficult. Even with no motive to be false, it is very hard to say the exact truth.