Warm summer sun, shine kindly here.

The darling mispronunciations of childhood! - dear me, there's no music that can touch it; and how one grieves when it wastes away and dissolves into correctness, knowing it will never visit his bereaved ear again.

There is only one expert who is qualified to examine the souls and the life of a people and make a valuable report - the native novelist. ... And when a thousand able novels have been written, there you have the soul of the people; and not anywhere else can these be had.

A conspiracy is nothing but a secret agreement of a number of men for the pursuance of policies which they dare not admit in public

A railroad is like a lie you have to keep building it to make it stand.

The very "marks" on the bottom of a piece of rare crockery are able to throw me into a gibbering ecstasy.

Authorship is not a trade, it is an inspiration; authorship does not keep an office, its habitation is all out under the sky, and everywhere the winds are blowing and the sun is shining and the creatures of God are free.