Eating and sleeping are the only activities that should be allowed to interrupt a man's enjoyment of his cigar.

...one of the first achievements of the legislature was to institute a ten-thousand-dollar agricultural fair to show off forty dollars' worth of pumpkins in - however, the Territorial legislature was usually spoken of as the "asylum".

You know that kind of quiver that trembles around through you when you are seeing something so strange and enchanting and wonderful that it is just a fearful joy to be alive and look at it; and you know how you gaze, and your lips turn dry and your breath comes short, but you wouldn't be anywhere but there, not for the world.

I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up.

America cannot have an empire abroad and a Republic at home.

Man is the only animal that is cruel. It kills just for the sake of it.

I have made it a rule never to smoke more than one cigar at a time.