I am dead to adverbs; they cannot excite me. To misplace an adverb is a thing which I am able to do with frozen indifference; it can never give me a pang. There are subtleties which I cannot master at all - they confuse me, they mean absolutely nothing to me - and this adverb plague is one of them.

The only very marked difference between the average civilized man and the average savage is that the one is gilded and the other is painted.

I was young and foolish then; now I am old and foolisher.

When you ascend the hill of prosperity, may you not meet a friend.

Nothing incites to money-crimes like great poverty or great wealth.

The difference between those that succeed and those that fail is, those that succeeded tried.

Once I talked to the inmates of an insane asylum in Hartford. I have talked to idiots a thousand times, but only once to the insane.