I hope all of us may eventually be together in everlasting peace and bliss -- except the inventor of the #‎ telephone .

Advertisements contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper.

It is no harm to be an ass, if one is content to bray and not kick.

To us, our house was not unsentient matter -- it had a heart, and a soul, and eyes to see us with; and approvals and solicitudes and deep sympathies; it was of us, and we were in its confidence, and lived in its grace and in the peace of its benediction.

Indecency, vulgarity, obscenity - these are strictly confined to man; he invented them. Among the higher animals there is no trace of them. They hide nothing. They are not ashamed.

Circumstance - which moves by laws of its own, regardless of parties and policies, and whose decrees are final and must be obeyed by all - and will be

I've lived through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened.