Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature .

Bores and Boredom

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. No man can form an adequate idea of the real meaning of the word, without coming here.

Change

Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.

Communication

Electric communication will never be a substitute for the face of someone who with their soul encourages another person to be brave and true.

Credit

A person who can't pay gets another person who can't pay to guarantee that he can pay. Like a person with two wooden legs getting another person with two wooden legs to guarantee that he has got two natural legs. It don't make either of them able to do a walking-match.

Dress

Great men are seldom over-scrupulous in the arrangement of their attire.

Eyes

He had but one eye and the pocket of prejudice runs in favor of two.

Gentlemen

I do not know the American gentleman, God forgive me for putting two such words together.

Home

Home is a name, a word, it is a strong one; stronger than magician ever spoke, or spirit ever answered to, in the strongest conjuration.

Hypocrisy

With affection beaming in one eye, and calculation shining out of the other.

Life and Living

Life is made of ever so many partings welded together.

Memory

Lord, keep my memory green.

Neurosis

Oh the nerves, the nerves; the mysteries of this machine called man! Oh the little that unhinges it, poor creatures that we are!

Portraits

There are only two styles of portrait painting; the serious and the smirk.

Sarcasm

I believe no satirist could breathe this air. If another Juvenal or Swift could rise up among us tomorrow, he would be hunted down. If you have any knowledge of our literature, and can give me the name of any man, American born and bred, who has anatomized our follies as a people, and not as this or that party; and who has escaped the foulest and most brutal slander, the most inveterate hatred and intolerant pursuit; it will be a strange name in my ears, believe me.

Time and Time Management

A day wasted on others is not wasted on one's self.

Youth

A boy's story is the best that is ever told.