[On Dutch flat poetry]: It is too smooth and blubbery; it reads like butter-milk gurgling from a jug.

When one's character begins to fall under suspicion and disfavor, how swift, then, is the work of disintegration and destruction.

Hardly a man in the world has an opinion upon morals, politics or religion which he got otherwise than through his associations and sympathies. Broadly speaking, there are none but corn-pone opinions. And broadly speaking, Corn-Pone stands for Self-Approval. Self-approval is acquired mainly from the approval of other people. The result is Conformity.

Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness.

Be good and you'll be lonesome

What is the chief end of man?-to get rich. In what way?-dishonestly if we can; honestly if we must.

Never refuse to do a kindness unless the act would work great injury to yourself, and never refuse to take a drink - under any circumstances.