There is nothing settled in manners, but the laws of behavior yield to the energy of the individual.

The only thing grief has taught me is to know how shallow it is.

The only true gifts are a portion of yourself.

The attraction and superiority of California are in its days. It has better days & more of them, than any other country.

A man's power to connect his thought with its proper symbol, and so to utter it, depends on the simplicity of his character, that is, upon his love of truth, and his desire to communicate it without loss.

Language is a city, to the building of which every human being brought a stone; yet he is no more to be credited with the grand result than the acaleph which adds a cell to the coral reef which is the basis of the continent.

We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body.