To forget pain is to be painless; to forget care is to be rid of it; to go abroad is to accomplish both.
To go abroad has something of the same sense that death brings. I am no longer of ye-what ye say of me is now of no consequence.
A jay hasnt got any more principle than a Congressman. A jay will lie, a jay will steal, a jay will deceive, a jay will betray; and four times out of five, a jay will go back on his solemnest promise.
By his father he is English, by his mother he is Americanto my mind the blend which makes the perfect man.
I was exceedingly delighted with the waltz, and also with the polka. These differ in name, but there the difference ceases.
Switzerland is simply a large, lumpy, solid rock with a thin skin of grass stretched over it.
The blunting effects of slavery upon the slaveholder’s moral perceptions are known and conceded the world over; and a priveleged class, an aristocracy, is but a band of slaveholders under another name.
Man is the only creature who has a nasty mind.
If you send a damned fool to St. Louis, and you don’t tell them he’s a damned fool, they’ll never find out.
I have attended operas, whenever I could not help it, for fourteen years now; I am sure I know of no agony comparable to the listening to an unfamiliar opera.
It is no harm to be an ass, if one is content to bray and not kick.
Newport, Rhode Island, that breeding place-that stud farm, so to speak-of aristocracy; aristocracy of the American type.
I fell in love with the most cordial and sociable city in the Union.
Change is the handmaiden Nature requires to do her miracles with.
Each season brings a world of enjoyment and interest in the watching of its unfolding, its gradual harmonious development, its culminating graces-and just as one begins to tire of it, it passes away and a radical change comes, with new witcheries and new glories in its train.
To one in sympathy with nature, each season, in its turn, seems the loveliest.
My axiom is, to succeed in business: avoid my example.
When we do not know a person – and also when we do – we have to judge his size by the size and nature of his achievements, as compared with the achievements of others in his special line of business – there is no other way.
I’ve come loaded with statistics, for I’ve noticed that a man can’t prove anything without statistics. No man can.
The minute we get reconciled to a person, how willing we are to throw aside little needless punctilios and pronounce his name right.