I am not interested to know whether vivisection produces results that are profitable to the human race or doesn't...The pain which it inflicts upon unconsenting animals is the basis of my enmity toward it, and it is to me sufficient justification of the enmity without looking further.

I simply can't resist a cat, particularly a purring one.

The difference between fiction and nonfiction is that fiction must be absolutely believable.

It will take mind and memory months and possibly years to gather together the details, and thus learn and know the whole extent of the loss.

Thanksgiving day. Let us all give humble, hearty, and sincere thanks now, but the turkeys.

Experience, the only logic sure to convince a diseased imagination and restore it to rugged health.

Customs do not concern themselves with right or wrong or reason. But they have to be obeyed; one reasons all around them until he is tired, but he must not transgress them, it is sternly forbidden.