The very "marks" on the bottom of a piece of rare crockery are able to throw me into a gibbering ecstasy.

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

It is my belief that nearly any invented quotation, played with confidence, stands a good chance to deceive.

Man is the only animal that is cruel. It kills just for the sake of it.

Let me make the superstitions of a nation and I care not who makes its laws or its songs either.

I would like to live in Manchester, England. The transition between Manchester and death would be unnoticeable.

Many of the cemeteries are beautiful, and are kept in perfect order. When one goes from the levee or the business streets [of New Orleans] to it, to a cemetery, he observes to himself that if those people down there would live as neatly while they are alive as they do after they are dead, they would find many advantages in it; and besides, their quarter would be the wonder and admiration of the business world.