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.

And always we had wars, and more wars, and still other wars - all over Europe, all over the world. "Sometimes in the private interest of royal families," Satan said, "sometimes to crush a weak nation; but never a war started by the aggressor for any clean purpose - there is no such war in the history of the race."

I am the entire human race compacted together. I have found that there is no ingredient of the race which I do not possess in either a small way or a large way.

Is a person's public and private opinion the same? It is thought there have been instances.

The man who sets out to carry a cat by its tail learns something that will always be useful and which never will grow dim or doubtful.

Are you so unobservant as not to have found out that sanity and happiness are an impossible combination?

Never let the truth get in the way of a good story.