"The one reader I'm trying to please as I write is me, and I'm pretty difficult to please."

“She's wearing a ring that I bought on sale, and that makes her the property of this U.S. Male.”

“We are told it will be of no use for us to ask this measure of justice--that the ballot be given to the women of our new possessions upon the same terms as to the men--because we shall not get it. It is not our business whether we are going to get it; our business is to make the demand.... Ask for the whole loaf and take what you can get.”

“Why did so many grown-ups want to be young, she wondered, when it took so long to grow old? It was like going on a million-mile road trip then wanting to turn around without getting out of the car.”

“The personal deportment of Captain Perry, throughout the day, was worthy of all praise. He did not quit his own vessel when she became useless, to retire from the battle, but to gain it; an end that was fully obtained, and an effort which resulted in triumph.”

Source : "History of the Navy of the United States of America". Book by James Fenimore Cooper, 1856.

“I now find my political philosophy more in line with Democrats than Republicans,”

“Gout produces calculus in the kidney... the patient has frequently to entertain the painful speculation as to whether gout or stone be the worst disease. Sometimes the stone, on passing, kills the patient, without waiting for the gout.”

“A burro is an ass. A burrow is a hole in the ground. As a journalist you are expected to know the difference.”

“What is haunting is that people fallen off the train threaten those who remain on board.”

Source : Louise Bernikow (1986). “Alone in America: the search for companionship”, Harpercollins