I was a-trembling, because I'd got to decide, forever, betwixt two things, and I knowed it.

I hate editors, for they make me abandon a lot of perfectly good English words.

The Christian's Bible is a drug store. Its contents remain the same, but the medical practice changes.

But the elastic heart of youth cannot be compressed into one constrained shape long at a time.

All emotion is involuntary when genuine.

Drop this mean and sordid and selfish devotion to the saving of your shabby little souls, and hunt up something to do that's got some dignity to it! Risk your souls! Risk them in good causes; then if you lose them, why should you care? Reform!

What, sir, would the people of the earth be without woman? They would be scarce, sir, almighty scarce.