Every one knew he could foretell wars and famines, though that was not so hard, for there was always a war, and generally a famine somewhere.

Manifestly, dying is nothing to a really great and brave man.

Switzerland is simply a large, lumpy, solid rock with a thin skin of grass stretched over it.

I think that the reason why we Americans seem to be so addicted to trying to get rich suddenly is merely because the opportunity to make promising efforts in that direction has offered itself to us with a frequency out of all proportion to the European experience.

I have damaged my intellect trying to imagine why a man should want to invent a repeating clock, and how another man could be found to lust after it and buy it. The man who can guess these riddles is far on the way to guess why the human race was invented - which is another riddle which tires me.

God cures and the doctor sends the bill.

My experience with horses is that they never throw away a chance to go lame.