A baby is an inestimable blessing and bother.

I fell in love with the most cordial and sociable city in the Union.

I have thought many times since that if poets when they get discouraged would blow their brains out, they could write very much better when they got well.

The future interests me - I'm going to spend the rest of my life there.

No one is willing to acknowledge a fault in himself when a more agreeable motive can be found for the estrangement of his acquaintances.

All say, ‘how hard it is that we have to die’ -- a strange complaint to come from the mouths of those who have had to live.

Adam was but human—this explains it all. He did not want the apple for the apple's sake, he wanted it only because it was forbidden. The mistake was in not forbidding the serpent; then he would have eaten the serpent.