A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.

We have been cocksure of many things that were not so.

Life is a fatal complaint, and an eminently contagious one.

To rest upon a formula is a slumber that, prolonged, means death.

For my part I think it is a less evil that some criminals should escape, than that the government should play an ignoble part.

Young feller, you will never appreciate the potentialities of the English language until you have heard a Southern mule driver search the soul of a mule.

The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become.