How empty is theory in the presence of fact!

It is just like man's vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions.

The pause - that impressive silence, that eloquent silence, that geometrically progressive silence which often achieves a desired effect where no combination of words, howsoever felicitous, could accomplish it.

Fleas can be taught nearly anything a congressman can.

A dollar picked up in the road is more satisfaction to you than the ninety-and -nine which you had to work for, and money won at faro or in stock snuggles into your heart in the same way.

I am the entire human race compacted together. I have found that there is no ingredient of the race which I do not possess in either a small way or a large way.

The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.