A mighty porterhouse steak an inch and a half thick, hot and sputtering from the griddle; dusted with fragrant pepper; enriched with little melting bits of butter of the most impeachable freshness and genuineness; the precious juices of the meat trickling out and joining the gravy, archipelagoed with mushrooms; a township or two of tender, yellowish fat gracing an out-lying district of this ample county of beefsteak; the long white bone which divides the sirloin from the tenderloin still in its place.

In a museum in Havana, there are two skulls of Christopher Columbus, one when he was a boy and one when he was a man

Citizenship is what makes a republic - monarchies can get along without it.

No one can write perfect English and keep it up through a stretch of ten chapters. It has never been done.

All saints can do miracles, but few of them can keep a hotel.

... the English alphabet is pure insanity..., It can hardly spell any word in the language with any degree of certainty.

Tomorrow night I appear for the first time before a Boston audience - 4000 critics.