“Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.”

“We are always more anxious to be distinguished for a talent which we do not possess, than to be praised for the fifteen which we do possess.”

“The Germans have another kind of parenthesis, which they make by splitting a verb in two and putting half of it at the beginning of an exciting chapter and the other half at the end of it. Can any one conceive of anything more confusing than that? These things are called "separable verbs." The German grammar is blistered all over with separable verbs; and the wider the two portions of one of them are spread apart, the better the author of the crime is pleased with his performance.”

“The nation is divided, half patriots and half traitors, and no man can tell which from which.”

“Each man's preference is the only standard for him, the only one which he can accept, the only one which can command him.”

“Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.”

“Emperors, kings, artisians, peasens, big people---at the bottom we are all alike and all the same; all just alike on the inside, and when our clothes are off, nobody can tell which of us is which.”