You can't throw too much style into a miracle.

A German joke is no laughing matter.

Heaven goes by favor. If it went by merit, you would stay out and your dog would go in.

It is a mistake that there is no bath that will cure people's manners, but drowning would help.

A public library is the most enduring of memorials, the trustiest monument for the preservation of an event or a name or an affection; for it, and it only, is respected by wars and revolutions, and survives them.

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

Saturday morning was come, and all the summer world was bright and fresh, and brimming with life. There was a song in every heart; and if the heart was young, the music issued at the lips. There was cheer in every face and a spring in every step. The locust-trees were in bloom, and the fragrance of the blossoms filled the air. Cardiff Hill, beyond the village and above, it was green with vegetation, and it lay just far enough away to seem a Delectable Land, dreamy, reposeful, and inviting.