"True! - nervous - very, very nervous I had been and am; but why will you say that I am mad?"

"You call it hope — that fire of fire! It is but agony of desire."

"A dirge for her the doubly dead in that she died so young."

"...the agony of my soul found vent in one loud, long and final scream of despair."

"In our endeavors to recall to memory something long forgotten, we often find ourselves upon the very verge of remembrance, without being able, in the end, to remember."

"Oh what a tangled web we weave when first we practise to deceive"

"I stand amid the roar Of a surf-tormented shore, And I hold within my hand Grains of golden sand- How few! yet how they creep Through my fingers to the deep, While I weep- while I weep!"

"Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary, Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore,"

"The depth lies in the valleys where we seek her, and not upon the mountain-tops where she is found."

"I call to mind flatness and dampness; and then all is madness - the madness of a memory which busies itself among forbidden things."

"There was much of the beautiful, much of the wanton, much of the bizarre, something of the terrible, and not a little of that which might have excited disgust."

"There are chords in the hearts of the most reckless which cannot be touched without emotion, even by the utterly lost, to whom life and death are equally jests, there are matters of which no jest can be made."

"When I get hold of a book I particularly admire, I am so enthusiastic that I loan it to someone who never brings it back."

"The man who can keep a secret may be wise, but he is not half as wise as the man with no secrets to keep"

"A man will do more for his stubbornness than for his religion or his country."

"A modest man is usually admired, if people ever hear of him."

"The only way to amuse some people is to slip and fall on an icy pavement."

"A woman who can't forgive should never have more than a nodding acquaintance with a man."

"If your faith is opposed to experience, to human learning and investigation, it is not worth the breath used in giving it expression."

"There is always a type of man who says he loves his fellow men, and expects to make a living at it."

"If your faith is opposed to experience, to human learning and investigation, it is not worth the breath used to give it expression."

"Americans detest all lies except lies spoken in public or printed lies."

"When a man is trying to sell you something, don't imagine that he is polite all the time."

"Farmers only worry during the growing season, but townspeople worry all the time."

"For every quarrel a man and wife have before others, they have a hundred when alone."

"Virtue must be valuable, if men and women of all degrees pretend to have it."

"Don't abuse your friends and expect them to consider it criticism."

"Common sense is compelled to make its way without the enthusiasm of anyone."

"Families with babies and families without babies are sorry for each other."

"What people say behind your back is your standing in the community."

"No man would listen to you talk if he didn't know it was his turn next."

"Everyone suffers wrongs for which there is no remedy."

"When you are in trouble, people who call to sympathize are really looking for the particulars."

"When men are not regretting that life is so short, they are doing something to kill time."

"The worst feeling in the world is the homesickness that comes over a man occasionally when he is at home."

"It may be a cold, clammy thing to say, but those that treat friendship the same as any other selfishness seem to get the most out of it."

"The sounder your argument, the more satisfaction you get out of it."

"When a man has no reason to trust himself, he trusts in luck."

"Men have as exaggerated an idea of their rights as women have of their wrongs."

"If a woman doesn't chase a man a little, she doesn't love him."

"The average man's judgment is so poor, he runs a risk every time he uses it."

"A theory is no more like a fact than a photograph is like a person."

"Marriage is a good deal like a circus: there is not as much in it as is represented in the advertising."

"If there were no schools to take the children away from home part of the time, the insane asylums would be filled with mothers."

"A woman is as old as she looks before breakfast."

"The feeling of sleepiness when you are not in bed, and can't get there, is the meanest feeling in the world."

"Some men are alive simply because it is against the law to kill them."

"People are always neglecting something they can do in trying to do something they can't do."

"If a man has money, it is usually a sign, too, that he knows how to take care of it; don't imagine his money is easy to get simply because he has plenty of it."

"You needn't love your enemy, but if you refrain from telling lies about him, you are doing well enough."