I said nothing of the sort.

Giving up smoking is the easiest thing in the world. I know because I've done it thousands of times.

Geological time is not money.

I find that the further I go back, the better things were, whether they happened or not.

Put no trust in the benefits to accrue from early rising, as set forth by the infatuated Franklin.

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.

If you shamefully misuse a cat once she will always maintain a dignified reserve toward you afterward. You will never get her full confidence again.