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

A monarch, when good, is entitled to the consideration which we accord to a pirate who keeps Sunday School between crimes; when bad, he is entitled to none at all.

For all the talk you hear about knowledge being such a wonderful thing, instinct is worth forty of it for real unerringness.

We can't always have the beautiful aspect of things. Let us make the most of our sights that are beautiful and let the others go

July 4. Statistics show that we lose more fools on this day than in all the other days of the year put together. This proves, by the number left in stock, that one fourth of July per year is now inadequate, the country has grown so

The radical of one century is the conservative of the next. The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out, the conservative adopt.

We adore titles and heredities in our hearts and ridicule them with our mouths. This is our democratic privilege.