I don't see any use in having a uniform and arbitrary way of spelling words. We might as well make all clothes alike and cook all dishes alike. Sameness is tiresome; variety is pleasing.

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

The soul and substance of what customarily ranks as patriotism is moral cowardice -- and always has been.

Experience of life (not of books) is the only capital usable in such a book as you have attempted; one can make no judicious use of this capital while it is new.

There is nothing more awe-inspiring than a miracle except the credulity that can take it at par.

Whenever he was out of luck and a little down-hearted, he would fall to mourning over the loss of a wonderful cat he used to own (for where women and children are not, men of kindly impulses take up with pets, for they must love something)

The New York papers have long known that no large question is ever really settled until I have been consulted.