When congress is in session no American is safe.

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

We could use up two Eternities in learning all that is to be learned about our own world and the thousands of nations that have arisen and flourished and vanished from it. Mathematics alone would occupy me eight million years.

It is easier to stay out than get out.

An injurious truth has no merit over an injurious lie. Neither should ever be uttered. The man who speaks an injurious truth, lest his soul be not saved if he do otherwise, should reflect that that sort of a soul is not strictly worth saving.

The equator was wisely put where it is, because if it had been run through Europe all the kings would have tried to grab it.

In a good bookroom you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in all the books through your skin, without even opening them.