But it warn't no time to be sentimentering.

He was endowed with a stupidity which by the least little stretch would go around the globe four times and tie.

The worst loneliness is not to be comfortable with yourself.

I have been reading the morning paper. I do it every morning-knowing well that I shall find in it the usual depravities and basenesses and hypocrisies and cruelties that make up civilization, and cause me to put in the rest of the day pleading for the damnation of the human race. I cannot seem to get my prayers answered, yet I do not despair.

It{California} is the land where the fabled Aladdin's Lamp lies buried-and she {San Francisco} is the new Aladdin who shall seize it from its obscurity and summon the genie and command him to crown her with power and greatness and bring to her feet the hoarded treasures of the earth.

Love seems the swiftest, but it is the slowest of growths

I am not given to exaggeration, and when I say a thing I mean it.