I cannot call to mind a single instance where I have ever been irreverent, except toward the things which were sacred to other people.

Fortune knocks at every man's door once in a life.

The community is eminently Portuguese - that is to say, it is slow, poor, shiftless, sleepy, and lazy.

The machine has several virtues... One may lean back in his chair and work it. It piles an awful stack of words on one page. It don't muss things or scatter ink blots around.

As by the fires of experience, so by commission of crime you learn real morals. Commit all crimes, familiarize yourself with all sins, take them in rotation (there are only two or three thousand of them), stick to it, commit two or three every day, and by and by you will be proof against them. When you are through you will be proof against all sins and morally perfect. You will be vaccinated against every possible commission of them. This is the only way.

The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are in the wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are in the right.

A man's character may be learned from the adjectives which he habitually uses in conversation.