Nothing is more tiresome than a superannuated pedagogue.

Good men do the most harm.

The tourist was the great conservative who hated novelty and adored dirt.

Society is immoral and immortal; it can afford to commit any kind of folly, and indulge in any sort of vice; it cannot be killed, and the fragments that survive can always laugh at the dead.

The American President resembles the commander of a ship at sea. He must have a helm to grasp, a course to steer, a port to seek.

My favorite figure of the American author is that of a man who breeds a favorite dog, which he throws into the Mississippi River for the pleasure of making a splash. The river does not splash, but it drowns the dog.

One friend in a life-time is much; two are many; three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.