But when a man suspects any wrong it sometimes happens that if he be already involved in the matter he insensibly strives to cover up his suspicions ….

For small erections may be finished by their first architects; grand ones, true ones, ever leave the copestone to posterity. God keep me from ever co….

As with ships, so with men; he who turns his back to his foe gives him an advantage..

There is a touch of divinity even in brutes, and a special halo about a horse, that should forever exempt him from indignities..

Niggards are oftentimes neat..

Dream tonight of peacock tails, Diamond fields and spouter whales. Ills are many, blessing few, But dreams tonight will shelter you..

The further our civilization advances upon its present lines so much the cheaper sort of thing does "fame" become, especially of the literary sort. T….

There is no dignity in wickedness, whether in purple or rags; and hell is a democracy of devils, where all are equals..

At banquets surfeit not, but fill; partake, and retire; and eat not again till you crave..

In metropolitan cases, the love of the most single-eyed lover, almost invariably, is nothing more than the ultimate settling of innumerable wandering….

There is the grand truth about Nathaniel Hawthorne. He says NO! in thunder; but the Devil himself cannot make him say yes. For all men who say yes, l….

All the world over, the picturesque yields to the pocketesque..

In placid hours well-pleased we dream Of many a brave unbodied scheme. But form to lend, pulsed life create, What unlike things must meet and mate: A….

But I shall follow the endless, winding way, — the flowing river in the cave of man; careless whither I be led, reckless where I land..

The dinner-hour is the summer of the day: full of sunshine, I grant; but not like the mellow autumn of supper..

Friendship at first sight, like love at first sight, is said to be the only truth..

Failure is the test of greatness..

A smile is the chosen vehicle of all ambiguities..

To certain temperaments, especially when previously agitated by any deep feeling, there is perhaps nothing more exasperating, andwhich sooner explode….

The idea of Jehovah was born here... Out of the rude elements of the insignificant thoughts thoughts that are in all men, they reared the transcenden….

Talk not to me of blasphemy, man; I'd strike the sun if it insulted me..