Blessed be the inventor of photography! It has given more positive pleasure to poor suffering humanity than anything else that has 'cast up' in my time - this art by which even the 'poor' can possess themselves of tolerable likenesses of their absent |
People who are so dreadfully "devoted" to their wives are so apt, from mere habit, to get devoted to other people's wives as well |
The only thing that makes one place more attractive to me than another is the quantity of heart I find in it. |
The surest way to get a thing in this life is to be prepared for doing without it, to the exclusion even of hope. |
Time is the only comforter for the loss of a mother. |
When one has been threatened with a great injustice, one accepts a smaller as a favor. |