"There are times when there is only one way, and that the highest, and then the men are found to stand in the breach."

"But the world goes on its way, and the wheel turns, and the wrongs of the Browns, like other wrongs, seem in a fair w…"

"They can't let anything alone which they think going wrong. They must speak their mind about it, annoying all easy-go…"

"Failures slide off them like July rain off a duck's back feathers."

"I pity people who weren't born in a vale. I don't mean a flat country, but a vale—that is, a flat country bounded by …"

"I have been credibly informed, and am inclined to believe, that the various boards of directors of railway companies,…"

"As that venerable and learned poet (whose voluminous works we all think it the correct thing to admire and talk about…"

"Tom's nurse was one who took in her instruction very slowly—she seemed to have two left hands and no head; and so Mrs…"

"Class amusements, be they for dukes or plough-boys, always become nuisances and curses to a country. The true charm o…"

"I don't object to a compromise where you don't give up your principle."