It is not what a man knows, but what he thinks of in time.

So I became a newspaperman. I hated to do it but I couldnt find honest employment.

I can always tell which is the front end of a horse, but beyond that, my art is not above the ordinary.

Love is not a product of reasonings and statistics. It just comes-none knows whence-and cannot explain itself.

Bridgeport?" Said I. "Camelot," Said he.

This is the fairest picture on our planet, the most enchanting to look upon, the most satisfying to the eye and spirit. To see the sun sink down, drowned in his pink and purple and golden floods, and overwhelm Florence with tides of color that make all the sharp lines dim and faint and turn the solid city to a city of dreams, is a sight to stir the coldest nature, and make a sympathetic one drunk with ecstasy.

We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it and stop there lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove lid. She will never sit down on a hot stove lid again and that is well but also she will never sit down on a cold one anymore.