There was a great difference in boats, of course. For a long time I was on a boat that was so slow we used to forget what year it was we left port in.

People are much more willing to lend you books than bookcases.

Laws control the lesser man... Right conduct controls the greater one.

It liberates the vandal to travel-you never saw a bigoted, opinionated, stubborn, narrow-minded, self-conceited, almighty mean man in your life but he had stuck in one place since he was born and thought God made the world and dyspepsia and bile for his especial comfort and satisfaction.

The lightning there is peculiar; it is so convincing, that when it strikes a thing it doesn't leave enough of that thing behind for you to tell whether-Well, you'd think it was something valuable, and a Congressman had been there.

In Boston they ask, how much does he know? In New York, how much is he worth? In Philadelphia, who were his parents?

Man is the only creature who has a nasty mind.