I have a great deal of company in my house; especially in the morning, when nobody calls.

What is the singing of birds, or any natural sound, compared with the voice of one we love.

We should come home from adventures, and perils, and discoveries every day with new experience and character.

There is a difference between eating and drinking for strength and from mere gluttony.

Nothing is so much to be feared as fear.

We are eager to tunnel under the Atlantic and bring the Old World some weeks nearer to the New; but perchance the first news that will leak through into the broad, flapping American ear will be that the Princess Adelaide has the whooping cough.

Government never furthered any enterprise but by the alacrity with which it got out of its way.