It's spring fever. That is what the name of it is. And when you've got it, you want—oh, you don't quite know what it is you do want, but it just fairly makes your heart ache, you want it so!

I would have written a shorter letter, but I did not have the time.

What a good thing Adam had. When he said a good thing he knew nobody had said it before.

Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone, you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.

Twenty-four years ago I was strangely handsome; in San Francisco in the rainy season I was often mistaken for fair weather.

[N]o country can be well governed unless its citizens as a body keep religiously before their minds that they are the guardians of the law and that the law officers are only the machinery for its execution, nothing more.

A newspaper is not just for reporting the news as it is, but to make people mad enough to do something about it.