In America, they want you to accomplish these great feats, to pull off these David Copperfield-type stunts. You want me to be great, but you don't ever want me to say I'm great?
I shouted, and earned a hard thump on my head for my trouble.
The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.
Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less.
Be more prompt to go to a friend in adversity than in prosperity.
Humor is the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor; for a subject which will not bear raillery is suspicious, and a jest which will not bear serious examination is false wit.
He who boasts of his ancestry is praising the deeds of another.