I had longed to be a butterfly, and I was one at last. I attended private parties in sumptuous evening dress, simpered and aired my graces like a born beau, and polkaed and schoisched with a step peculiar to myself - and the kangaroo.

The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don't want, drink what you don't like, and do what you'd rather not.

A banquet is probably the most fatiguing thing in the world except ditch digging.

Weather is a literary specialty, and no untrained hand can turn out a good article on it

The more you join with people in their joys and their sorrows, the more nearer and dearer they come to be to you.

We all do no end of feeling, and we mistake it for thinking.

Every citizen of the republic ought to consider himself an unofficial policeman, and keep unsalaried watch and ward over the laws and their execution.