One knows so little. When one knows more it is too late.

Is there ever any particular spot where one can put one's finger and say, "It all began that day, at such a time and such a place, with such an incident?

Beastly things, teeth. Give us trouble from the cradle to the grave.

Ideas are like everything else. They've got to be marketed.

I have always admired the Esquimaux (Eskimos). One fine day a delicious meal is cooked for dear old mother, and then she goes walking away over the ice, and doesn't come back.

Trains are wonderful.... To travel by train is to see nature and human beings, towns and churches and rivers, in fact, to see life.

A great many men are mad, and no one knows it. They do not know it themselves