By the by, who ever knew a man who never read or wrote neither who hadn’t got some small back parlour which he would call a study!
And what about the cash, my existence’s jewel?
The very dogs were all asleep, and the flies, drunk with moist sugar in the grocer’s shop, forgot their wings and briskness, and baked to death in dusty corners of the window.
You can only form the minds of reasoning animals upon Facts: nothing else will ever be of any service to them. Stick to Facts, sir!
There’s a young man hid with me, in comparison with which young man I am a Angel. That young man hears the words I speak. That young man has a secret way pecooliar to himself, of getting at a boy, and at his heart, and at his liver.
Walk and be Happy, Walk and be Healthy...
Let us leave our old friend in one of those moments of unmixed happiness which, if we seek them, there are ever some, to cheer our transitory existence here. There are dark shadows on the earth, but its lights are stronger in the contrast.
Do not close your heart against all my efforts to help you...
Hallo! A great deal of steam! the pudding was out of the copper. A smell like a washing-day! That was the cloth. A smell like an eating-house and a pastrycook’s next door to each other, with a laundress’s next door to that. That was the pudding.
I should never have made my success in life if I had not bestowed upon the least thing I have ever undertaken the same attention and care that I have bestowed upon the greatest.
The law is an ass, an idiot.
In life I was your partner, Jacob Marley.
When you drink of the water, don’t forget the spring from which it flows.
My faith in the people governing is, on the whole, infinitesimal; my faith in the people governed is, on the whole, illimitable.
The American woman is a monstrosity.
Home is a word stronger than a magician ever spoke.
I had no advice, no counsel, no encouragement, no consolation, no assistance, no support, of any kind, from anyone, that I can call to mind, as I hope to go to heaven!
Rich folks may ride on camels, but it ain’t so easy for ’em to see out of a needle’s eye.
Nothing is discovered without God’s intention and assistance, and I suppose every new knowledge of His works that is conceded to man to be distinctly a revelation by which men are to guide themselves.
Discipline must be maintained.