In all my travels the thing that has impressed me the most is the universal brotherhood of man-what there is of it.

When I was younger, I could remember anything, whether it had happened or not; but my faculties are decaying now and soon I shall be so I cannot remember any but the things that never happened. It is sad to go to pieces like this but we all have to do it.

I have at last, after several months' experience, made up my mind that [New York] is a splendid desert--a domed and steepled solitude, where the stranger is lonely in the midst of a million of his race.

The xmas holidays have this high value: that they remind Forgetters of the Forgotten, & repair damaged relationships.

A wanton waste of projectiles.

I have made it a rule never to smoke more than one cigar at a time.

I am not interested to know whether vivisection produces results that are profitable to the human race or doesn't...The pain which it inflicts upon unconsenting animals is the basis of my enmity toward it, and it is to me sufficient justification of the enmity without looking further.