If you can't stand solitude, perhaps others find you boring as well.

Nothing that grieves us can be called little: by the eternal laws of proportion a child's loss of a doll and a king's loss of a crown are events of the same size.

In Marseilles they make half the toilet soap we consume in America, but the Marseillaise only have a vague theoretical idea of its use, which they have obtained from books of travel.

It is the will of God that we must have critics and missionaries and congressmen and humorists, and we must bear the burden

A brown spotted lady-bug climbed the dizzy height of a grass blade, and Tom bent down close to it and said, "Lady-bug, lady-bug, fly away home, your house is on fire, your children's alone," and she took wing and went off to see about it -- which did not surprise the boy, for he knew of old that this insect was credulous about conflagrations, and he had practised upon its simplicity more than once.

To gnaw on is human, towards digest, divine.

You meet people who forget you. You forget people you meet. But sometimes you meet those people you can't forget. Those are your 'friends