Genius, all over the world, stands hand in hand, and one shock of recognition runs the whole circle round.

Failure is the true test of greatness

To be a born American citizen seems a guarantee against pauperism; and this, perhaps, springs from the virtue of a vote.

Nearly all literature, in one sense, is made up of guide-books. Old ones tell us the ways our fathers went, through the thoroughfares and courts of old; but how few of those former places can their posterity trace, amid avenues of modern erections; to how few is the old guide-book now a clew! Every age makes its own guide-books, and the old ones are used for waste paper.

There is a woe that is wisdom, a woe that is madness.

He seemed to take to me quite as naturally and unbiddenly as I to him; and when our smoke was over, he pressed his forehead against mine, clasped me round the waist, and said that henceforth we were married.

While nature thus very early and very abundantly feeds us, she is very late in tutoring us as to the proper methodization of our diet.