Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.

It was a splendid population - for all the slow, sleepy, sluggish-brained sloths stayed at home - you never find that sort of people among pioneers - you cannot build pioneers out of that sort of material. It was that population that gave to California a name for getting up astounding enterprises and rushing them through with a magnificent dash and daring and a recklessness of cost or consequences, which she bears unto this day - and when she projects a new surprise the grave world smiles as usual and says, "Well, that is California all over.

The solution to our water problems is more rain.

It is hard enough luck being a monarch, without being a target also.

Balloon: Thing to take meteroric observations and commit suicide with.

One is apt to overestimate beauty when it is rare

All human rules are more or less idiotic.