Well-married, a man is winged: ill-matched, he is shackled.

Of all man's works of art, a cathedral is greatest. A vast and majestic tree is greater than that.

I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness ought to be like a cancelled note - torn in two, and burned up, so that it never can be shown against one.

Mirth is God's medicine. Everybody ought to bathe in it. Grim care, moroseness, anxiety,--all this rust of life, ought to be scoured off by the oil of mirth. It is better than emery. Every man ought to rub himself with it. A man without mirth is like a wagon without springs, in which one is caused disagreeably to jolt by every pebble over which it runs.

It takes a man to make a devil; and the fittest man for such a purpose is a snarling, waspish, red-hot, fiery creditor.

Newspapers are the schoolmasters of the common people.

A boy is a piece of existence quite separate from all things else, and deserves separate chapters in the natural history of men.