My land, the power of training! Of influence! Of education! It can bring a body up to believe anything.

You perceive I generalize with intrepidity from single instances. It is the tourist's custom.

Name the greatest of all inventors. Accident.

The mind that becomes soiled in youth can never again be washed clean. I know this by my own experience, & to this day I cherish an unappeased bitterness against the unfaithful guardians of my young life, who not only permitted but compelled me to read an unexpurgated Bible through before I was 15 years old. None can do that and ever draw a clean sweet breath again on this side of the grave.

We take a natural interest in novelties, but it is against nature to take an interest in familiar things.

The machine has several virtues... One may lean back in his chair and work it. It piles an awful stack of words on one page. It don't muss things or scatter ink blots around.

Custom is, to think a handsome thing in private but tame it down in the utterance.