I would not rob you of your food or your clothes or your umbrella, but if I caught your German out I would take it. But I don't study any more,- I have given it up.

When everyone is looking for gold, it's a good time to be in the pick and shovel business.

It was a splendid population - for all the slow, sleepy, sluggish-brained sloths stayed at home - you never find that sort of people among pioneers - you cannot build pioneers out of that sort of material. It was that population that gave to California a name for getting up astounding enterprises and rushing them through with a magnificent dash and daring and a recklessness of cost or consequences, which she bears unto this day - and when she projects a new surprise the grave world smiles as usual and says, "Well, that is California all over.

India has two million gods, and worships them all. In religion all other countries are paupers; India is the only millionaire.

I saw men whom thirty years had changed but slightly; but their wives had grown old. These were good women; it is very wearing to be good.

Tomorrow night I appear for the first time before a Boston audience - 4000 critics.

It was the schoolboy who said, ""Faith is believing what you know ain't so.""