I was educated once - it took me years to get over it.

Customs do not concern themselves with right or wrong or reason. But they have to be obeyed; one reasons all around them until he is tired, but he must not transgress them, it is sternly forbidden.

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.

The most permanent lessons in morals are those which come, not of book teaching, but of experience.

Germany, the diseased world's bathhouse.

I said there was but one solitary thing about the past worth remembering, and that was the fact that it is past-can't be restored.

Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.