great people are those who make others feel that they, too, can become great.

I have done more for San Francisco than any of its old residents. Since I left there it has increased in population fully 300,000. I could have done more - I could have gone earlier - it was suggested.

I am content to be a bric-a-bracker and a Ceramiker.

I would much prefer to suffer from the clean incision of an honest lancet than from a sweetened poison.

The first of April is the day we remember what we are the other 364 days of the year.

I should be sorry to think it was the publishers themselves they got up this entire little flutter to enable them to unload a book that was taking too much room in their cellars, but you can never tell what a publisher will do. I have been one myself.

Inherited ideas are a curious thing, and interesting to observe and examine.