Every wall is a door.

Conservatism, ever more timorous and narrow, disgusts the children, and drives them for a mouthful of fresh air into radicalism.

Nature, as we know her, is no saint.... She comes eating and drinking and sinning.

Men of God have always, from time to time, walked among men, and made their commission felt in the heart and soul of the commonest hearer.

A few strong instincts and a few plain rules suffice us

The secret of success in society is a certain heartiness and sympathy. A man who is not happy in company, cannot find any word in his memory that will fit the occasion; all his information is a little impertinent. A man who is happy there, finds in every turn of the conversation occasions for the introduction of what he has to say. The favorites of society are able men, and of more spirit than wit, who have no uncomfortable egotism, but who exactly fill the hour and the company, contended and contenting.

Any work looks wonderful to me except the one which I can do.