Memories which someday will become all beautiful when the last annoyance that encumbers them shall have faded out of our minds.

Our opinions do not really blossom into fruition until we have expressed them to someone else.

Men think they think upon the great political questions, and they do; but they think with their party, not independently; they read its literature, but not that of the other side

The equator was wisely put where it is, because if it had been run through Europe all the kings would have tried to grab it.

I am aware that I am very old now; but I am also aware that I have never been so young as I am now, in spirit, since I was fourteen and entertained Jim Wolf with the wasps. I am only able to perceive that I am old by a mental process; I am altogether unable to feel old in spirit. It is a pity, too, for my lapses from gravity must surely often be a reproach to me. When I am in the company of very young people I always feel that I am one of them, and they probably privately resent it.

The report of my illness grew out of his (James Clemens) illness. The report of my death was an exaggeration.

It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.