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.

I have tried getting up early, and I have tried getting up late-and the latter agrees with me best.

The rule is perfect: in all matters of opinion our adversaries are insane.

The blunting effects of slavery upon the slaveholder's moral perceptions are known and conceded the world over; and a priveleged class, an aristocracy, is but a band of slaveholders under another name.

Civilization largely consists in hiding human nature. When the barbarian learns to hide it we account him enlightened.

I'm merely running some errands. This is now off the record.

Nothing is so ignorant as a man's left hand, except a lady's watch.