The idea that a baby doesn't amount to anything! Why, one baby is just a house and a front yard full by itself. One baby can, furnish more business than you and your whole Interior Department can attend to. He is enterprising, irrepressible, brimful of lawless activities.

We have not the reverent feeling for the rainbow that the savage has, because we know how it is made. We have lost as much as we gained by prying into that matter.

The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are in the wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are in the right.

I will remark in the way of general information, that in California, that land of felicitous nomenclature, the literary name of this sort of stuff is "hogwash"

France has neither winter nor summer nor morals. Apart from these drawbacks it is a fine country.

A man may have no bad habits and have worse

The only difference between a tax man and a taxidermist is that the taxidermist leaves the skin.