when I am alone in the forest I always say my prayers; and that occasional solitary communion with God is surely the only true religion for intelligent beings.

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

California has all the beauties of youth as well as its idiocies and vices.

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

Success is a great healer.

there is only one thing we do know and that is that we do not know anything.

We never care to know new people unless we are sure we shall like them.