I am sure that no traveler seeing things through author spectacles can see them as they are.

A Queen, or a Prime Minister's secretary may be shot at in London, as we know; and probably there is no person eminent in literature or otherwise who has not been the object of some infirm brain or another. But in America the evil is sadly common.

If there is any country on earth where the course of true love may be expected to run smooth, it is America.

It is my deliberate opinion that the one essential requisite of human welfare in all ways is scientific knowledge of human nature.

[On being deaf:] We must struggle for whatever may be had, without encroaching on the comfort of others.

The voice of a whole people goes up in the silent workings of an institution.

Happiness consists in the full employment of our faculties in some pursuit.