I have always been rather better treated in San Francisco than I actually deserved.

When congress is in session no American is safe.

I have no liking for novels or stories - none in the world; and so, whenever I read one - which is not oftener than once in two years, and even in these same cases I seldom read beyond the middle of the book - my distaste for the vehicle always taints my judgment of the literature itself, as a matter of course; and also of course makes my verdict valuless. Are you saying "You have written stories yourself." Quite true: but the fact that an Indian likes to scalp people is no evidence that he likes to be scalped.

The best and most telling speech is not the actual impromptu one but the counterfeit of it.

A lie can make it half way around the world before the truth has time to put its boots on.

Each nation knowing it has the only true religion and the only sane system of government, each despising all the others, each an ass and not suspecting it.

When one has tasted watermelon he knows what the angels eat.