The shy man does have some slight revenge upon society for the torture it inflicts upon him.

We drink [to] one another's health and spoil our own.

What readers ask nowadays in a book is that it should improve, instruct, and elevate. This book wouldn't elevate a cow.

A Spaniard will seek to persuade you that the bull-ring is an institution got up chiefly for the benefit of the bull.

Evil thought is a dangerous pet. It is safer to play with it from behind the iron bars of circumstance.

If a man stopped me in the street and demanded of me my watch, I should refuse to give it to him. If he threatened to take it by force, I feel I should, though not a fighting man, do my best to protect it. If, on the other hand, he should assert his intention of trying to obtain it by means of an action in any court of law, I should take it out of my pocket and hand it to him, and think I had got off cheaply.

We are so bound together that no man can labor for himself alone. Each blow he strikes in his own behalf helps to mold the universe.