Each person is born to one possession which outvalues all his others-his last breath.

Never knew before what eternity was made for. It is to give some of us a chance to learn German.

A brown spotted lady-bug climbed the dizzy height of a grass blade, and Tom bent down close to it and said, "Lady-bug, lady-bug, fly away home, your house is on fire, your children's alone," and she took wing and went off to see about it -- which did not surprise the boy, for he knew of old that this insect was credulous about conflagrations, and he had practised upon its simplicity more than once.

Laws are sand, customs are rock. Laws can be evaded and punishment escaped, but an openly transgressed custom brings sure punishment.

I think that the reason why we Americans seem to be so addicted to trying to get rich suddenly is merely because the opportunity to make promising efforts in that direction has offered itself to us with a frequency out of all proportion to the European experience.

I was exceedingly delighted with the waltz, and also with the polka. These differ in name, but there the difference ceases

Next to possessing genius one's self is the power of appreciating it in others.