Ill-luck, you know, seldom comes alone.

Her father guarded her, and she guarded herself; for there are no padlocks, bolts, or bars, that secure a maiden better than her own reserve.

Diligence is the mother of good fortune, and idleness, its opposite, never brought a man to the goal of any of his best wishes.

One day, in the San Francisco walk, he came upon some badly painted figures and observed that good painters imitate nature but bad ones vomit it forth.

I shall be as secret as the grave.

He who's down one day can be up the next, unless he really wants to stay in bed, that is.

History is the depository of great actions, the witness of what is past, the example and instructor of the present, and monitor to the future.