I could never learn to like her, except on a raft at sea with no other provisions in sight.

I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened.

It is a dear and lovely disposition, and a most valuable one, that can brush away indignities and discourtesies and seek and find the pleasanter features of an experience.

The choir always tittered and whispered all through the service. There was once a church choir that was not ill-bred, but I have forgotten where it was.

Tomorrow night I appear for the first time before a Boston audience - 4000 critics.

If there are no cigars in heaven, I shall not go.

Intellectual ''work'' is misnamed; it is a pleasure, a dissipation, and is its own highest reward.