There are many humorous things in the world; among them, the white man's notion that he is less savage than the other savages.

Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do. Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.

We were surprised how closely the cuckoo imitated the clock-and yet, of course, it could never have heard a clock.

It ain't those parts of the Bible that I can't understand that bother me, it is the parts that I do understand.

All you need is ignorance and confidence and the success is sure.

... No photograph ever was good, yet, of anybody - hunger and thirst and utter wretchedness overtake the outlaw who invented it! It transforms into desperadoes the weakest of men; depicts sinless innocence upon the pictured faces of ruffians; gives the wise man the stupid leer of a fool, and the fool an expression of more than earthly wisdom.

The solution to our water problems is more rain.