When the human race has once acquired a superstition, nothing short of death is ever likely to remove it.

A man who keeps company with glaciers comes to feel tolerably insignificant by and by.

In Paris they just simply opened their eyes and stared when we spoke to them in French! We never did succeed in making those idiots understand their own language.

When your friends begin to flatter you on how young you look, it's a sure sign you're getting old.

To someone with a hammer, everything looks like a nail.

When a man loves cats, I am his friend and comrade, without further introduction.

I have seen an entire family lifted out of poverty and into affluence by the simple boon of a broken leg. I have had people come to me on crutches, with tears in their eyes, to bless this beneficient institution. In all my experiences of life, I have seen nothing so seraphic as the look that comes into a freshly mutilated man's face when he feels in his vest pocket with his remaining hand and finds his accident ticket all right.