His head was an hour-glass; it could stow an idea, but it had to do it a grain at a time, not the whole idea at once.

What a good thing Adam had. When he said a good thing he knew nobody had said it before.

Never miss an opportunity to shut up.

No one is willing to acknowledge a fault in himself when a more agreeable motive can be found for the estrangement of his acquaintances.

For we were little Christian children and early learned the value of forbidden fruit.

The worst thing you can do to a man is to tell him he can have what he wants.

It is a time when one's spirit is subdued and sad, one knows not why; when the past seems a storm-swept desolation, life a vanity and a burden, and the future but a way to death.