Hero: Person in a book who does things which he can't and girl marries him for it.
If ignorance is bliss, why isn't the world happier?
When people do not respect us we are sharply offended; yet in his private heart no man much respects himself.
By "trampling upon the helpless abroad" with unchecked surveillance, Americans have learned, "by a natural process, to endure with apathy the like at home."
There is no urge so great as for one man to edit another man's work.
I have at last, after several months' experience, made up my mind that [New York] is a splendid desert--a domed and steepled solitude, where the stranger is lonely in the midst of a million of his race.