I was born modest; not all over, but in spots.

Hero: Person in a book who does things which he can't and girl marries him for it.

The ability to find solutions to life's challenges is what makes us grow as a person.

You have heretofore found out, by my teachings, that man is a fool; you are now aware that woman is a damned fool.

I bring you this stately matron named Christendom, returning bedraggled, besmirched, and dishonored from pirate raids in Kiao-Chow, Manchuria, South Africa, and the Phillipines, with her soul full of meanness, her pocket full of boodle, and her mouth full of pious hypocrisies. Give her soap and a towel, but hide the looking-glass.

As I have said before, I never had any large respect for good spelling. That is my feeling yet. Before the spelling-book came with its arbitrary forms, men unconsciously revealed shades of their characters, and also added enlightening shades of expression to what they wrote by their spelling, and so it is possible that the spelling-book has been a doubtful benevolence to us.

There is a charm about the forbidden that makes it unspeakably desirable.