genius must ever be imperfect. Life is not long enough nor slow enough for both brain and character to grow side by side to superhuman proportions.

No matter how hard a man may labor, some woman is always in the background of his mind. She is the one reward of virtue.

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

Never trust a woman who will not lie about her age after thirty. She is unwomanly and unhuman and there is no knowing what crimes she will commit.

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

I see no present solution of a great and intricate problem but that the rich should realize their duty to the poor.

To put a tempting face aside when duty demands every faculty is a lesson which takes most men longest to learn.