There is in life only one moment and in eternity only one. It is so brief that it is represented by the fleeting of a luminous mote through the thin ray of sunlight - and it is visible but a fraction of a second. The moments that preceded it have been lived, are forgotten and are without value; the moments that have not been lived have no existence and will have no value except in the moment that each shall be lived. While you are asleep you are dead; and whether you stay dead an hour or a billion years the time to you is the same.

There are German songs which can make a stranger to the language cry.

You aim for the palace and get drowned in the sewer.

It is the will of God that we must have critics and missionaries and congressmen and humorists, and we must bear the burden

A man can be a Christian or a patriot, but he can't legally be a Christian and a patriot - except in the usual way: one of the two with the mouth, the other with the heart.

I was a-trembling, because I'd got to decide, forever, betwixt two things, and I knowed it.

If you don't like the weather in New England now, just wait a few minutes.