To someone with a hammer, everything looks like a nail.

When I want to read something nice, I sit down and write it myself.

I purpose publishing these Letters here in the world before I return to you. Two editions. One, unedited, for Bible readers and their children; the other, expurgated, for persons of refinement

Each season brings a world of enjoyment and interest in the watching of its unfolding, its gradual harmonious development, its culminating graces-and just as one begins to tire of it, it passes away and a radical change comes, with new witcheries and new glories in its train.

...ignorant as the unborne babe! ignorant as unborn twins!

It's a good thing for a dog to have fleas; keeps his mind off being a dog.

Last week, I stated this woman was the ugliest woman I had ever seen. I have since been visited by her sister, and now wish to withdraw that statement.