Every leader of a great revolution is a fanatic and a Jesuit.

... books are too heterogeneous an interest to furnish a vital one in life, a reason for being alive.

I am a Californian, and we have twice the individuality and originality of any people in the United States. We always get quite huffy when we are spoken of as merely Americans.

Nowhere can it rain harder and with a more tiresome persistence than in California during the brief season when it rains at all.

New York has always prided itself on its bad manners. That is the real source of our strength.

The grief of childhood is terrible while it lasts, it is so abandoned and so all-possessing.

[Alexander] Hamilton estimated portrait painters as thieves of time.