The most mighty of nature's laws is this, that out of Death she brings Life.

The easiest way of life is the best.

Dollars damn me; and the malicious Devil is forever grinning in upon me, holding the door ajar. ... What I feel most moved to write, that is banned - it will not pay. Yet, altogether, write the other way I cannot. So the product is a final hash, and all my books are botches.

Climate of Egypt in winter is the reign of spring upon earth, & summer in the air, and tranquility in the heat.

In time of peril, like the needle to the loadstone, obedience, irrespective of rank, generally flies to him who is best fitted to command.

Civilization has not ever been the brother of equality. Freedom was born among the wild eyries in the mountains; and barbarous tribes have sheltered under her wings, when the enlightened people of the plain have nestled under different pinions.

The dinner-hour is the summer of the day: full of sunshine, I grant; but not like the mellow autumn of supper.