If you have enough room for your books, you don't have enough books.

No wonder that, when a political career is so precarious, men of worth and capacity hesitate to embrace it. They cannot afford to be thrown out of their life's course by a mere accident.

To most people, nothing is more troublesome than the effort of thinking.

The worth of a book is to be measured by what you can carry away from it.

California, more than any other part of the Union, is a country by itself, and San Francisco a capital.

The national park is the best idea America ever had.

It is accepted as an axiom by all Americans that the civil power ought to be not only neutral and impartial as between different forms of faith, but ought to leave these matters entirely on one side, regarding them no more than it regards the artistic or literary pursuits of the citizens.