When I hear the hypercritical quarreling about grammar and style, the position of the particles, etc., etc... I see that they forget that the first requisite and rule is that expression shall be vital and natural.

It is not in vain that man speaks to man. This is the value of literature.

It is said that a rogue does not look you in the face, neither does an honest man look at you as if he had his reputation to establish.

I have made a short excursion into the new world which the Indian dwells in, or is. He begins where we leave off.

In order to die, you must first have lived.

If all were as it seems, and men made the elements their servants for noble ends!

Why should we live with such hurry and waste of life? We are determined to be starved before we are hungry.