Women cannot receive even the most palpably judicious suggestion without arguing it; that is, married women.

Diligence is a good thing, but taking things easy is much more restful.

Bridgeport?" Said I. "Camelot," Said he.

In our day we don't allow a hundred and thirty years to elapse between glimpses of a marvel. If somebody should discover a creek in the county next to the one that the North Pole is in, Europe and America would start fifteen costly expeditions thither; one to explore the creek, and the other fourteen to hunt for each other.

That is just the way with some people. They get down on a thing when they don’t know nothing about it.

Be virtuous and you will be eccentric.

Evolution is a blind giant who rolls a snowball down a hill. The ball is made of flakes-circumstances. They contribute to the mass without knowing it. They adhere without intention, and without foreseeing what is to result. When they see the result they marvel at the monster ball and wonder how the contriving of it came to be originally thought out and planned. Whereas there was no such planning, there was only a law: the ball once started, all the circumstances that happened to lie in its path would help to build it, in spite of themselves.