Nothing helps scenery like bacon and eggs.

God made the Idiot for practice, and then He made the School Board.

The more I learn about people, the more I like my dog.

The human race is a race of cowards; and I am not only marching in that procession but carrying a banner.

I said there was nothing so convincing to an Indian as a general massacre. If he could not approve of the massacre, I said the next surest thing for an Indian was soap and education. Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run; because a half-massacred Indian may recover, but if you educate him and wash him, it is bound to finish him some time or other.

The art of prophecy is very difficult, especially with respect to the future.

Medicine has made all its progress during the past fifty years. ... How many operations that are now in use were known fifty years ago?-they were not operations, they were executions.