While the rest of the species is descended from apes, redheads are descended from cats.

When one's character begins to fall under suspicion and disfavor, how swift, then, is the work of disintegration and destruction.

Life does not consist mainly, or even largely, of facts and happenings. It consists mainly ofthe storm of thought that is forever flowing through one's head.

To us, our house was not unsentient matter -- it had a heart, and a soul, and eyes to see us with; and approvals and solicitudes and deep sympathies; it was of us, and we were in its confidence, and lived in its grace and in the peace of its benediction.

It is the Creator´s Grand Army, and he is the Commander-in-Chief... With these facts before you, now try to guess man´s chiefest pet name for this ferocious Commander-in-Chief? I will save you the trouble but you must not laugh. It is Our Father in Heaven.

Memories which someday will become all beautiful when the last annoyance that encumbers them shall have faded out of our minds.

Martyrdom covers a multitude of sins.