The more things are forbidden, the more popular they become.

The more you join with people in their joys and their sorrows, the more nearer and dearer they come to be to you.

Only he who has seen better days and lives to see better days again knows their full value.

He wa'n't no common dog, he wa'n't no mongrel; he was a composite. A composite dog is a dog that is made up of all the valuable qualities that's in the dog breed-kind of a syndicate; and a mongrel is made up of all riffraff that's left over.

The partitions of the houses were so thin we could hear the women occupants of adjoining rooms changing their minds.

I like criticism, but it must be my way.

Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime.