Information appears to stew out of me naturally, like the precious otter of roses out of the otter.

I don't like to commit myself about heaven and hell - you see, I have friends in both places.

The country is the real thing, the substantial thing, the eternal thing, it is the thing to watch over and care for and be loyal to; institutions are extraneous. . . .

There was a great difference in boats, of course. For a long time I was on a boat that was so slow we used to forget what year it was we left port in.

The cigar-box which the European calls a 'lift' needs but to be compared with our elevators to be appreciated. The lift stops to reflect between floors. That is all right in a hearse, but not in elevators. The American elevator acts like a man's patent purge-it works.

The perfection of wisdom, and the end of true philosophy is to proportion our wants to our possessions, our ambitions to our capacities, we will then be a happy and a virtuous people.

Death is the starlit strip between the companionship of yesterday and the reunion of tomorrow.