No government demands so much from the citizens as democracy and none gives back so much.
Life is too short to read inferior books.
In Europe we have cities wealthier and more populous than yours and we are not happy. You dream of your posterity; but your posterity will look back to yours as the golden age, and envy those who first burst into this silent, splendid Nature.
Perhaps the most typically American place in America.
If you have enough room for your books, you don't have enough books.
California, more than any other part of the Union, is a country by itself, and San Francisco a capital.