The finest manners in the world are awkwardness and fatuity when contrasted with a finer intelligence. They appear but as the fashions of past days,--mere courtliness, knee-buckles and small- clothes, out of date.

Many men walk by day; few walk by night. It is a different season.

I do not believe there are eight hundred human beings on the globe.

When I read some of the rules for speaking and writing the English language correctly, I think any fool can make a rule, and every fool will mind it.

Nothing can rightly compel a simple and brave man to a vulgar sadness.

The value of any experience is measured, of course, not by the amount of money, but the amount of development we get out of it.

Don't be afraid that your life will end, be afraid that it will never begin!