Now when I had mastered the language of this water, and had come to know every trifling feature that bordered the great river as familiarly as I knew the letters of the alphabet, I had made a valuable acquisition. But I had lost something, too. I had lost something which could never be restored me while I lived. All the grace, the beauty, the poetry, had gone out of the majestic river!

Why do you sit there looking like an envelope without any address on it?

We never knew an ignorant person yet but was prejudiced.

Nothing is so ignorant as a man's left hand, except a lady's watch.

There are laws to protect the freedom of the press's speech, but none that are worth anything to protect the people from the press

There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact.

I'm all for prosperity. It's change I object to.