There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist.

In the Spring, I have counted 136 different kinds of weather inside of 24 hours.

Adam did not want the apple for the apple's sake; he wanted it because it was forbidden.

Make your vacation your vocation.

I told that girl, in the kindest, gentlest way, that I could not consent to deliver judgment upon any one's manuscript, because an individual's verdict was worthless. It might underrate a work of high merit and lose it to the world, or it might overrate a trashy production and so open the way for its infliction upon the world. I said that the great public was the only tribunal competent to sit in judgment upon a literary effort, and therefore it must be best to lay it before that tribunal in the outset, since in the end it must stand or fall by that mighty court's decision any way.

Teaching is like trying to hold 35 corks underwater at once.

The highest perfection of politeness is only a beautiful edifice, built, from the base to the dome, of ungraceful and gilded forms of charitable and unselfish lying.