As I have said before, I never had any large respect for good spelling. That is my feeling yet. Before the spelling-book came with its arbitrary forms, men unconsciously revealed shades of their characters, and also added enlightening shades of expression to what they wrote by their spelling, and so it is possible that the spelling-book has been a doubtful benevolence to us.

We all do no end of feeling, and we mistake it for thinking.

the more I know about people, the better I like my dogs.

It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.

The radical of one century is the conservative of the next. The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out, the conservative adopt.

He does not care for flowers. Calls them rubbish, and cannot tell one from another, and thinks it is superior to feel like that.

I have spent most of my life worrying about things that have never happened.