Marriage -- yes, it is the supreme felicity of life. I concede it. And it is also the supreme tragedy of life. The deeper the love the surer the tragedy. And the more disconsolating when it comes.

Astonishing things can be done with the human memory if you will devote it faithfully to one particular line of business.

Weather is a literary specialty, and no untrained hand can turn out a good article on it

I am always on the side of the revolutionists, because there never was a revolution unless there were some oppressive and intolerable conditions against which to revolute.

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

You can't reason with your heart; it has its own laws, and thumps about things which the intellect scorns.

If we only had some God in the country's laws, instead of being in such a sweat to get him into the Constitution, it would be better all around.