Stain my eyes as I may, on all sides all is black.

If I could write a story that would do for the Indian one-hundredth part what 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' did for the Negro, I would be thankful the rest of my life.

Nothing can be so bad as to be displeased with one's self.

There cannot be found in the animal kingdom a bat, or any other creature, so blind in its own range of circumstance and connection, as the greater majority of human beings are in the bosoms of their families

Who longest wait of all surely wins.

That indescribable expression peculiar to people who hope they have not been asleep, but know they have.

Bee to the blossom, moth to the flame; Each to his passion; what's in a name?