There's a great power in words, if you don't hitch too many of them together.

When good-natured people leave us we look forward with extra pleasure to their return.

Marrying a woman for her money is very much like setting a rat-trap, and baiting it with your own finger.

Man was created a little lower than the angels and has been getting a little lower ever since.

The morning paper is just as necessary for an American as dew is to the grass.

One of the rarest things that a man ever does, is to do the best he can.

Experience is a grindstone; and it is lucky for us, if we can get brightened by it, and not ground.