Great enterprises usually promise vastly more than they perform.

I will remark in the way of general information, that in California, that land of felicitous nomenclature, the literary name of this sort of stuff is "hogwash"

Now he found out a new thing--namely, that to promise not to do a thing is the surest way in the world to make a body want to go and do that very thing.

There are many humorous things in the world; among them, the white man's notion that he is less savage than the other savages.

I begin to see that a man's got to be in his own heaven to be happy.

Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.

To believe yourself brave is to be brave; it is the one only essential thing.