To be great, truly great, you have to be the kind of person who makes the others around you great.

I am not interested to know whether vivisection produces results that are profitable to the human race or doesn't...The pain which it inflicts upon unconsenting animals is the basis of my enmity toward it, and it is to me sufficient justification of the enmity without looking further.

It is better to be a young June-bug than an old bird of paradise.

So I became a newspaperman. I hated to do it but I couldnt find honest employment.

It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly native criminal class except Congress.

A man who keeps company with glaciers comes to feel tolerably insignificiant by and by. The Alps and the glaciers together are able to take every bit of conceit out of a man and reduce his self-importance to zero if he will only remain within the influence of their sublime presence long enough to give it a fair and reasonable chance to do its work.

We often feel sad in the presence of music without words; and often more than that in the presence of music without music.