Politicians, old buildings, and prostitutes become respectable with age.

A great, great deal has been said about the weather, but very little has ever been done.

What is there that confers the noblest delight? What is that which swells a man's breast with pride above that which any other experience can bring to him? Discovery!

There is no urge so great as for one man to edit another man's work.

You are a coward when you even seem to have backed down from a thing you openly set out to do

Which is him?" The grammar was faulty, maybe, but we could not know, then, that it would go in a book someday.

If animals could speak, the dog would be a blundering outspoken fellow; but the cat would have the rare grace of never saying a word too much.