A photograph is a most important document, and there is nothing more damning to go down to posterity than a silly, foolish smile caught and fixed forever.

My first American ancestor, gentlemen, was an Indian-an early Indian. Your ancestors skinned him alive, and I am an orphan. All those Salem witches were ancestors of mine. Your people made it tropical for them. . . . The first slave brought into New England out of Africa was an ancestor of mine-for I am a mixed breed, an infinitely shaded and exquisite Mongrel.

You are a coward when you even seem to have backed down from a thing you openly set out to do

I have not professionally dealt in truth. Many when they come to die have spent all the truth that was in them, and enter the next world as paupers. I have saved up enough to make an astonishment there.

The only very marked difference between the average civilized man and the average savage is that the one is gilded and the other is painted.

You have heretofore found out, by my teachings, that man is a fool; you are now aware that woman is a damned fool.

I can teach anybody how to get what they want out of life. The problem is that I can't find anybody who can tell me what they want.