It's a good thing to be rich and a good thing to be strong, but it is a better thing to be beloved of many friends.

Every man is an omnibus in which his ancestors ride.

Most people have died before they expire; died to all earthly longings, so that the last breath is only, as it were, the locking of the door of the already deserted mansion.

My right to swing my fist ends where your nose begins.

Knowledge-it excites prejudices to call it science-is advancing as irresistibly, as majestically, as remorselessly as the ocean moves in upon the shore.

But I have long thought that if you knew a column of advertisements by heart, you could achieve unexpected felicities with them. You can get a happy quotation anywhere if you have the eye.

A good soldier, like a good horse, cannot be of a bad color.