Never argue with people who buy ink by the gallon.

When someone dies, it is like when your house burns down; it isn't for years that you realize the full extent of your loss.

Every person is a book, each year a chapter.

Women cannot receive even the most palpably judicious suggestion without arguing it; that is, married women.

I said nothing of the sort.

We have an insanity plea that would have saved Cain.

A man who keeps company with glaciers comes to feel tolerably insignificiant by and by. The Alps and the glaciers together are able to take every bit of conceit out of a man and reduce his self-importance to zero if he will only remain within the influence of their sublime presence long enough to give it a fair and reasonable chance to do its work.