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

Every man has a secret ambition: To outsmart horses, fish and women.

When the Lord finished the world, he pronounced it good. That is what I said about my first work, too. But Time, I tell you, Time takes the confidence out of these incautious opinions. It is more than likely that He thinks about the world, now, pretty much as I think about the Innocents Abroad. The fact is, there is a trifle too much water in both.

In statesmanship get formalities right, never mind about the moralities.

Not all the Greek runners in the original Olympics were totally naked. Some wore shoes.

A monarch, when good, is entitled to the consideration which we accord to a pirate who keeps Sunday School between crimes; when bad, he is entitled to none at all.

Even popularity can be overdone. In Rome, along at first, you are full of regrets that Michelangelo died; but by and by, you only regret that you didn't see him do it.