A proud man is one who waits for a vacancy in the Trinity.

To be satisfied with what one has; that is wealth. As long as one sorely needs a certain additional amount, that man isn't rich.

Homely truth is unpalatable.

Love seems the swiftest, but it is the slowest of all growths. No man or woman really knows what perfect love is until they have been married a quarter of a century.

Wilson stopped and stood silent. Inattention dies a quick and sure death when a speaker does that.

You thunder and lightning too much; the reader ceases to get under the bed, by and by.

It was on the 10th day of May - 1884 - that I confessed to age by mounting spectacles for the first time, and in the same hour I renewed my youth, to outward appearance, by mounting a bicycle for the first time. The spectacles stayed on.