Christianity will doubtless still survive in the earth ten centuries hence- stuffed and in a museum.

If you shamefully misuse a cat once she will always maintain a dignified reserve toward you afterward. You will never get her full confidence again.

Our best built certainties are but sand-houses and subject to damage from any wind of doubt that blows

It makes one hope and believe that a day will come when, in the eye of the law, literary property will be as sacred as whiskey, or any other of the necessaries of life. It grieves me to think how far more profound and reverent a respect the law would have for literature if a body could only get drunk on it.

Yes, even I am dishonest. Not in many ways, but in some. Forty-one, I think it is.

Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.

Warm summer sun, shine kindly here. Warm southern wind, blow softly here. Green sod above, lie light, lie light. Good night, dear Heart, Good night, good night.