The minute we get reconciled to a person, how willing we are to throw aside little needless punctilios and pronounce his name right.

To one in sympathy with nature, each season, in its turn, seems the loveliest.

Civilization is a limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities.

There is no other life; life itself is only a vision and a dream for nothing exists but space and you. If there was an all-powerful God, he would have made all good, and no bad.

I have learned that there lies dormant in the souls of all men a penchant for some particular musical instrument an an unsuspected yearning to play on it, which are bound to wake up an demand attention someday. Therefore you who rail at such that disturb your slumbers with unsuccessful and demoralizing attempts to subjugate a guitar, beware! For sooner or later your own time will come.

Don't wrestle with pigs. You both get dirty and the pig likes it.

A monarch, when good, is entitled to the consideration which we accord to a pirate who keeps Sunday School between crimes; when bad, he is entitled to none at all.