A political career brings out the basest qualities in human nature.
California, more than any other part of the Union, is a country by itself, and San Francisco a capital.
The worth of a book is to be measured by what you can carry away from it.
The People, though we think of a great entity when we use the word, means nothing more than so many millions of individual men.
Life is too short for reading inferior books.
Life is too short to read inferior books.