“There is probably no hell for authors in the next world--they suffer so much from critics and publishers in this one.”

“I have always looked upon a telephone as an official kind of machine which you prepared for with fasting and prayer, and only had recourse to when strictly necessary for important business.”

“When all else is lost, the future still remains.”

“Good men have the fewest fears.”

“it is the passion that is in a kiss that gives to it its sweetness; it is the affection in a kiss that sanctifies it.”

“False friends are like our shadow, keeping close to us while we walk in the sunshine, but leaving us the instant we cross into the shade.”

“A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.”