The radical of one century is the conservative of the next.

So I became a newspaperman. I hated to do it but I couldnt find honest employment.

Jane Austen's books, too, are absent from this library. Just that one omission alone would make a fairly good library out of a library that hadn't a book in it.

I have carried a revolver; lots of us do, but they are the most innocent things in the world.

There are some natures which never grow large enough to speak out and say a bad act is a bad act, until they have inquired into the politics or the nationality of the man who did it.

Let us live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.

Our most valuable and most instructive materials in the history of man are treasured up in India.