I admire him, I frankly confess it; and when his time is come I shall buy a piece of the rope for a keepsake.

No one can write perfect English and keep it up through a stretch of ten chapters. It has never been done.

We all do no end of feeling, and we mistake it for thinking.

We are always more anxious to be distinguished for a talent which we do not possess, than to be praised for the fifteen which we do possess. Sometimes we are too close to the scene, to see clearly. We "know" ourselves so well that we cannot see how we are perceived by others. Our opinion of ourselves is only "one" opinion and it may not be the truth.

To place man properly at the present time, he stands somewhere between the angels and the French.

It was a place of sin, loose women, whiskey and gambling. It was no place for a good Presbyterian, and I did not long remain one.

Do one thing every day you don't want to do.