It may, indeed, be assumed that a man who loses his temper while he is speaking is endeavouring to speak the truth such as he believes it to be, and ….

No other American city is so intensely American as New York..

Before the reader is introduced to the modest country medical practitioner who is to be the chief personage of the following tale, it will be well th….

The apostle of Christianity and the infidel can meet without a chance of a quarrel; but it is never safe to bring together two men who differ about a….

It is my purpose to disclose the mystery at once, and to ask you to look for your interest,--should you choose to go on with my chronicle,--simply in….

It has been the great fault of our politicians that they have all wanted to do something..

Poverty, to be picturesque, should be rural. Suburban misery is as hideous as it is pitiable..

Taken altogether, Washington as a city is most unsatisfactory, and falls more grievously short of the thing attempted than any other of the great und….

I have no ambition to surprise my reader. Castles with unknown passages are not compatible with my homely muse..

A small daily task, if it be really daily, will beat the labours of a spasmodic Hercules..

Those who offend us are generally punished for the offence they give; but we so frequently miss the satisfaction of knowing that we are avenged !..

Never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. People will take you very much at your own reckoning..

And though it is much to be a nobleman, it is more to be a gentleman..

One can only pour out of a jug that which is in it..

If we wish ourselves to be high, we should treat that which is over us as high..

Nobody holds a good opinion of a man who has a low opinion of himself..

The law is a great thing,--because men are poor and weak, and bad. And it is great, because where it exists in its strength, no tyrant can be above i….

I don't like anybody or anything," said Lucinda. Yes, you do;--you like horses to ride, and dresses to wear..

The double pleasure of pulling down an opponent, and of raising oneself, is the charm of a politician's life..

I have sometimes thought that there is no being so venomous, so bloodthirsty as a professed philanthropist..

Though they were Liberals they were not democrats; nor yet infidels..