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

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

A little superstition is a good thing to keep in one's bag of precautions.

The Southerners are the only cooks in the United States. The real difference between the South and the North is that one enjoys itself getting dyspepsia and the other does not.

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

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.

there is no greater fraud or bore than the writer who has acquired the art of saying nothing brilliantly.