The report of my illness grew out of his (James Clemens) illness. The report of my death was an exaggeration.

Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform. "It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for certain that just ain't true." Thinking that you know the future.

History may not repeat, but it often rhymes.

Work and play are words used to describe the same thing under differing conditions.

I think we never become really and genuinely our entire and honest selves until we are dead--and not then until we have been dead years and years. People ought to start dead, and they would be honest so much earlier.

I will remark in the way of general information, that in California, that land of felicitous nomenclature, the literary name of this sort of stuff is "hogwash"

It is a mistake that there is no bath that will cure people's manners, but drowning would help.