There is more real pleasure to be gotten out of a malicious act, where your heart is in it, than out of thirty acts of a nobler sort.

Well, no doubt it's a blessed thing to have an imagination that can always make you satisfied, no matter how you are fixed.

There are no wild animals until man makes them so.

Custom is petrification, nothing but dynamite can dislodge it for a century.

Such is luck! And such the treatment which honest, good perservance gets so often at the hands of unfair and malicious Nature!

Make your vacation your vocation.

A monarch, when good, is entitled to the consideration which we accord to a pirate who keeps Sunday School between crimes; when bad, he is entitled to none at all.