Nothing is so common-place as to wish to be remarkable.

Don't you stay at home of evenings? Don't you love a cushioned seat in a corner, by the fireside, with your slippers on your feet?

Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtasked.

Speak clearly, if you speak at all; carve every word before you let it fall.

Some people are so heavenly minded that they are no earthly good.

What a blessed thing it is, that Nature, when she invented, manufactured, and patented her authors, contrived to make critics out of the chips that were left!

It's faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth living.