We are cruel enough without meaning to be.

I must go to Nature disarmed of perspective and stretch myself like a large transparent canvas upon her in the hope that, my submission being perfect, the imprint of a beautiful and useful truth would be taken.

To be President of the United States, sir, is to act as advocate for a blind, venomous, and ungrateful client.

I have never believed that one should wait until one is inspired because I think the pleasures of not writing are so great that if you ever start indulging them you will never write again.

There is no pleasing New Englanders, my dear, their soil is all rocks and their hearts are bloodless absolutes.

All blessings are mixed blessings.

By the time a partnership dissolves, it has dissolved.