Most people are other people.

It is a vulgar error to suppose that America was ever discovered. It was merely detected.

If there was less sympathy in the world, there would be less trouble in the world.

Every American bride is taken there [Niagara Falls], and the sight of the stupendous waterfall must be one of the earliest, if not the keenest, disappointments in American married life.

Though one can dine in New York, one could not dwell there.

The Number our envious Persons, confirmation our capability.

No publisher should ever express an opinion on the value of what he publishes. That is a matter entirely for the literary critic to decide. I can quite understand how any ordinary critic would be strongly prejudiced against a work that was accompanied by a premature and unnecessary panegyric from the publisher. A publisher is simply a useful middle-man. It is not for him to anticipate the verdict of criticism.