It is not like studying German, where you mull along, in a groping, uncertain way, for thirty years; and at last, just as you think you've got it, they spring the subjunctive on you, and there you are. No- and I see now plainly enough, that the great pity about the German language is, that you can't fall off it and hurt yourself. There is nothing like that feature to make you attend strictly to business.

In all my travels the thing that has impressed me the most is the universal brotherhood of man-what there is of it.

She was not quite what you would call refined. She was not quite what you would call unrefined. She was the kind of person that keeps a parrot.

Adam did not want the apple for the apple's sake; he wanted it because it was forbidden.

Age enlarges and enriches the powers of some musical instruments - notably those of the violin - but it seems to set a piano's teeth on edge.

We take a natural interest in novelties, but it is against nature to take an interest in familiar things.

Always do what's right. That will gratify some and surprise the rest.