You perceive I generalize with intrepidity from single instances. It is the tourist's custom.

Don't wake up a woman in love. Let her dream, so that she does not weep when she returns to her bitter reality

To lodge all power in one party and keep it there is to insure bad government and the sure and gradual deterioration of the public morals.

Let us be grateful to Adam: he cut us out of the blessing of idleness and won for us the curse of labor.

We all belong to the nasty stinking little human race, & of course it is not nice for God's beloved vermin to scoff at each other... Oh, we are a nasty little lot-& to think there are people who would like to save us & continue us. It won't happen if I have any influence.

A man who keeps company with glaciers comes to feel tolerably insignificiant by and by. The Alps and the glaciers together are able to take every bit of conceit out of a man and reduce his self-importance to zero if he will only remain within the influence of their sublime presence long enough to give it a fair and reasonable chance to do its work.

New Orleans food is as delicious as the less criminal forms of sin.