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

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

Men who pass most comfortably through this world are those who possess good digestions and hard hearts.

I wrote because I could not help it. There was something that I wanted to say, and I said it: that was all. The fame and the money and the usefulness might or might not follow. It was not by my endeavor if they did.

There is no theory of a God, of an author of Nature, of an origin of the Universe, which is not utterly repugnant to my faculties. . .

The lesson taught us by these kindly commentators on my present experience is that dogmatic faith compels the best minds and hearts to narrowness and insolence.

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