It took me some time to learn that although every one secretly cherishes the ambition to be 'put in a book,' no one is ever satisfied with anything save incense, butter, and honey, unrelieved by salt or spice.

It is a pretty trick of authors to make nature ever in sympathy with man, but as a matter of fact she seldom is.

The world, and the great and free United States in particular, is full of narrow-minded, ignorant, moronic, bigoted, cowardly, self-righteous, anemic, pig-headed, stupid, puritanical, hypocritical, prejudiced, fanatical, cocoa-blooded atavists, who soothe their inferiority complex by barking their hatred of anything new.

No loose fish enters our quiet bay.

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

Better extirpate the whole breed, root and branch. And this, unless the German people come to their senses, is what we propose to do.

The world changed somewhat in form during its progress, but never in substance.