Sagebrush is a very fair fuel, but as a vegetable it is a distinguished failure. Nothing can abide the taste of it but the jackass and his illegitimate child the mule.

America cannot have an empire abroad and a Republic at home.

The real yellow peril: Gold.

More than two hundred death penalties are gone from the law books, but the [biblical] texts that authorised them remain.

But it is a blessed provision of nature that at times like these, as soon as a man's mercury has got down to a certain point there comes a revulsion, and he rallies. Hope springs up, and cheerfulness along with it, and then he is in good shape to do something for himself, if anything can be done.

A dream...I was trying to explain to St. Peter, and was doing it in the German tongue, because I didn't want to be too explicit.

Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.