It's good sportsmanship to not pick up lost golf balls while they are still rolling.

I was educated, I was trained, I was a Presbyterian and I knew how these things are done. I knew that in Biblical times if a man committed a sin the extermination of the whole surrounding nation-cattle and all-was likely to happen. I knew that Providence was not particular about the rest, so that He got somebody connected with the one He was after.

To lodge all power in one party and keep it there is to insure bad government and the sure and gradual deterioration of the public morals.

Let me make the superstitions of a nation and I care not who makes its laws or its songs either.

In literature imitations do not imitate.

The human race consists of the damned and the ought-to-be damned.

Until I came to New Mexico, I never realized how much beauty water adds to a river.