Accidents will happen in the best-regulated families.

No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of it to anyone else.

And I am quite serious when I say that I do not believe there are, on the whole earth besides, so many intensified bores as in these United States.

I think it impossible, utterly impossible, for any Englishman to live here [in America], and be happy.

Every baby born into the world is a finer one than the last.

I have pretty large experience of boys, and you're a bad set of fellows.

In the little world in which children have their existence, whosoever brings them up, there is nothing so finely perceived and so finely felt, as injustice.

It may be only small injustice that the child can be exposed to; but the child is small, and its world is small, and its rocking-horse stands as many hands high, according to scale, as a big-boned Irish hunter.

What is the odds so long as the fire of soul is kindled at the taper of conviviality, and the wing of friendship never moults a feather?

Them which is of other naturs thinks different.