It is a good and gentle religion, but inconvenient.

No child should be permitted to grow up without exercise for imagination. It enriches life for him. It makes things wonderful and beautiful.

None of us can have as many virtues as the fountain-pen, or half its cussedness; but we can try.

It shames the average man to be valued below his own estimate of his worth.

That's just the way: a person does a low-down thing, and then he don't want to take no consequences of it. Thinks as long as he can hide it, it ain't no disgrace.

Trial by jury is the palladium of our liberties. I do not know what a palladium is, but I am sure it is a good thing!

We are chameleons, and our partialities and prejudices change place with an easy and blesses facility, and we are soon wonted to the change and happy in it.