Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature.

Anything for the quick life, as the man said when he took the situation at the lighthouse.

He would make a lovely corpse.

Credit is a system whereby a person who can not pay gets another person who can not pay to guarantee that he can pay.

There are only two styles of portrait painting; the serious and the smirk.

The men who learn endurance, are they who call the whole world, brother.

This is a world of action, and not for mopping and drowning in.

Any man may be in good spirits and good temper when he is well dressed. There ain't much credit in that.

There are books of which the bags and covers are by far the best parts.

Great men are seldom over-scrupulous in the arrangement of their attire.

'Tis love that makes the world go round, my baby.

Little Red Riding Hood was my first love. I felt that if I could have married Little Red Riding Hood, I should have known perfect bliss.

In the little world in which children have their existence, whatever brings them up, there is nothing so finely perceived and so finely felt, as injustice.

Regrets are the natural property of gray hair.

Papa, potatoes, poultry, prunes and prisms, are all very good words for the lips.

We are so very 'umble.

A boy's story is the best that is ever told.

Fan the smoking flame of hilarity with the wings of friendship; and pass the rose wine.

A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other.

I never could have done what I have done without the habits of punctuality, order, and diligence, without the determination to concentrate myself on one subject at a time.

I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.

Cows are my passion. What I have ever sighed for has been to retreat to a Swiss farm, and live entirely surrounded by cows - and china.

There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth.

I only ask to be free. The butterflies are free.

There are strings in the human heart that had better not be vibrated.

Life is made of ever so many partings welded together.

The first rule of business is: Do other men for they would do you.

An idea, like a ghost, must be spoken to a little before it will explain itself.

Vices are sometimes only virtues carried to excess!

It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold: then it is summer in the light, and winter in the shade.