You need not expect to get your book right the first time.

The pitifulest thing out is a mob; that's what an army is--a mob; they don't fight with courage that's born in them, but with courage that's borrowed from their mass, and from their officers. But a mob without any MAN at the head of it is BENEATH pitifulness.

This editor is a critic. He has pulled out his carving-knife and his tomahawk and is starting after a book which he is going to have for breakfast.

There was never a century nor a country that was short of experts who knew the Deity's mind and were willing to reveal it.

If it is a Miracle, any sort of evidence will answer, but if it is a Fact, proof is necessary

I came in with Halley's Comet in 1835. It is coming again next year, and I expect to go out with it. It will be the greatest disappointment of my life if I don't go out with Halley's Comet. The Almighty has said, no doubt: "Now here are these two unaccountable freaks; they came in together, they must go out together.

Literature is well enough, as a time-passer, and for the improvement and general elevation and purification of mankind, but it has no practical value.