Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.

A man who keeps company with glaciers comes to feel tolerably insignificant by and by.

The master minds of all nations, in all ages, have sprung in affluent multitude from the mass of the nations, and from the mass of the nation only-not from its privileged classes.

Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness.

The convention missionaries call "modesty" has no standard, and cannot have one, because it is opposed to nature and reason and is therefore an artificiality and subject to anybody's whim - anybody's diseased caprice.

The piano may do for love-sick girls who lace themselves to skeletons, and lunch on chalk, pickles and slate pencils, but give me the banjo.

Men are like bank accounts. The more money, the more interest they generate.