It is a good thing to write for the amusement of the public, but it is a far higher and nobler thing to write for their instruction, their profit, their actual and tangible benefit.

Have a place for everything and keep the thing somewhere else. This is not advice, it is merely custom.

An uneasy conscience is a hair in the mouth.

I said nothing of the sort.

It is just like man's vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions.

Italy is the home of art and swindling; home of religion and moral rottenness

[I] shall never use profanity except in discussing house rent and taxes. Indeed, upon second thought, I will not use it then, for it is unchristian, inelegant, and degrading--though to speak truly I do not see how house rent and taxes are going to be discussed worth a cent without it.