If ever you've been down in the dumps, hear these iconic authors share with you more than their writing wisdom.
Thunder is good, thunder is impressive; but it is lightning that does the work.
Books are the liberated spirits of men.
A cat is more intelligent than people believe, and can be taught any crime.
What a lie it is to call this a free country, where none but the unworthy and undeserving may swear.
A man accustomed to American food and American domestic cookery would not starve to death suddenly in Europe, but I think he would gradually waste away, and eventually die.