The most difficult thing to understand during conversation is silence.

I should not talk so much about myself if there were anybody else whom I knew as well.

Nothing is so much to be feared as fear.

Take Time by the forelock. It is also the safest part to take a serpent by.

Every day our garments become more assimilated to ourselves, receiving the impress of the wearer's character, until we hesitate tolay them aside without such delay and medical appliances and some such solemnity even as our bodies.

Trade and commerce, if they were not made of Indian rubber, would never manage to bounce over the obstacles which legislators are continually putting in their way.

I feel as if my life had grown more outward when I can express it.