At 50, a man can be an ass without being an optimist but not an optimist without being an ass

How unfortunate and how narrowing a thing it is for a man to have wealth who makes a god of it instead of a servant

If it would not look too much like showing off, I would tell the reader where New Zealand is.

When ill luck begins, it does not come in sprinkles, but in showers.

'Don't you worry, and don't you hurry.' I know that phrase by heart, and if all other music should perish out of the world it would still sing to me.

Familiarity breeds contempt - and children.

Where every man in a state has a vote, brutal laws are impossible.