This is the fairest picture on our planet, the most enchanting to look upon, the most satisfying to the eye and spirit. To see the sun sink down, drowned in his pink and purple and golden floods, and overwhelm Florence with tides of color that make all the sharp lines dim and faint and turn the solid city to a city of dreams, is a sight to stir the coldest nature, and make a sympathetic one drunk with ecstasy.

Humor is the good natured side of a truth.

Only kings, presidents, editors, and people with tapeworms have the right to use the editorial 'we.'

Don't tell fish stories where the people know you; but particularly, don't tell them where they know the fish.

It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.

Change is the handmaiden Nature requires to do her miracles with.

I have been studying the traits and dispositions of the "lower animals" (so called) and contrasting them with the traits and dispositions of man. I find the result humiliating to me.