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.

When politics enter into municipal government, nothing resulting therefrom in the way of crimes and infamies is then incredible. It actually enables one to accept and believe the impossible.

What a wee little part of a person's life are his acts and his words! His real life is led in his head, and is known to none but himself.

Honesty is the best policy - when there is money in it.

Imagination labors best in distant fields.

Whatever thing men call great, look for it in Joan of Arc, and there you will find it.

The two Testaments are interesting, each in its own way. The Old one gives us a picture of these people's Deity as he was before he got religion, the other one gives us a picture of him as he appeared afterward.