A baby is an inestimable blessing and bother.

Stripping away the irrational, the illogical, and the impossible, I am left with atheism. I can live with that.

It is a dear and lovely disposition, and a most valuable one, that can brush away indignities and discourtesies and seek and find the pleasanter features of an experience.

We get our morals from books. I didn't get mine from books, but I know that morals do come from books- theoretically at least.

Tom appeared on the sidewalk with a bucket of whitewash and a long-handled brush. He surveyed the fence, and all gladness left him and a deep melancholy settled down upon his spirit. Thirty yards of board fence nine feet high. Life to him seemed hollow, and existence but a burden.

The best and most telling speech is not the actual impromptu one but the counterfeit of it.

Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident; the only earthly certainty is oblivion.