Perfect grammar - persistent, continuous, sustained - is the fourth dimension, so to speak; many have sought it, but none has found it.

I would not read the proof of one of my books for any fair & reasonable sum whatever, if I could get out of it. The proof-reading on the P & Pauper cost me the last rags of my religion.

We Americans... bear the ark of liberties of the world.

A little starvation can really do more for the average sick man than can the best medicines and the best doctors.

We adore titles and heredities in our hearts and ridicule them with our mouths. This is our democratic privilege.

How far we travel in life matters far less than those we meet along the way.

We have infinite trouble in solving man-made mysteries; it is only when we set out to discover "the secret of God" that our difficulties disappear.