One may make their house a palace of sham, or they can make it a home, a refuge.

It is often the case that a man who can't tell a lie thinks he is the best judge of one.

I couldn't bear to think about it; and yet, somehow, I couldn't think about nothing else.

What is the difference between a taxidermist and a tax collector? The taxidermist takes only your skin.

The soul and substance of what customarily ranks as patriotism is moral cowardice -- and always has been.

The darling mispronunciations of childhood! - dear me, there's no music that can touch it; and how one grieves when it wastes away and dissolves into correctness, knowing it will never visit his bereaved ear again.

A man who keeps company with glaciers comes to feel tolerably insignificiant by and by. The Alps and the glaciers together are able to take every bit of conceit out of a man and reduce his self-importance to zero if he will only remain within the influence of their sublime presence long enough to give it a fair and reasonable chance to do its work.