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

There ought to be a room in every house to swear in. It's dangerous to have to repress an emotion like that.

Baseball is the very symbol, the outward and visible expression of the drive and push and rush and struggle of the raging, tearing, booming nineteenth century.

It is more trouble to make a maxim than it is to do right.

If the desire to kill and the opportunity to kill came always together, who would escape hanging?

I have done more for San Francisco than any of its old residents. Since I left there it has increased in population fully 300,000. I could have done more - I could have gone earlier - it was suggested.

You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.