In God We Trust. It is the choicest compliment that has ever been paid us, and the most gratifying to our feelings. It is simple, direct, gracefully phrased; it always sounds well - In God We Trust. I don't believe it would sound any better if it were true.

If horses knew their strength we should not ride anymore.

Italy is the home of art and swindling; home of religion and moral rottenness

The signs of excessive indulgence in this destructive pastime are easily detectable. They are these: A disposition to eat, to drink, to smoke, to meet together convivially, to laugh, to joke, and tell indelicate stories— and mainly, a yearning to paint pictures.

No man has an appreciation so various that his judgment is good upon all varieties of literary work.

There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact.

I have done more for San Francisco than any of its old residents. Since I left there it has increased in population fully 300,000. I could have done more - I could have gone earlier - it was suggested.