Why can't somebody give us a list of things that everybody thinks and nobody says, and another list of things that everybody says and nobody thinks?

Beware how you take away hope from any human being.

But friendship is the breathing rose, with sweets in every fold.

Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch; nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening.

I firmly believe that if the whole material medica, as now used, could be sunk to the bottom of the sea, it would be better for mankind-and all the worse for the fishes.

Trouble makes us one with every human being in the world - and unless we touch others, we're out of touch with life.

Every library should try to be complete on something, if it were only the history of pinheads.