The Book of Mormon is chloroform in print

There's something in it when a body like the widow or the parson prays, but it don't work for me, and I reckon it don't work for only just the right kind.

It is so unsatisfactory to read a noble passage and have no one you love at hand to share the happiness with you. And it is unsatisfactory to read to one's self anyhow - for the uttered voice so heightens the expression.

He was such a good man that people hated to see him coming.

Human Beings are the only animals that blush, or need to.

Habit is habit, and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed down-stairs one step at a time.

The fear of lightning is one of the most distressing infirmities a human being can be afflicted with. It is mostly confined to women, but now and then you find it in a little dog, and sometimes a man.