Next to possessing genius one's self is the power of appreciating it in others.

A wanton waste of projectiles.

I have no race prejudices, and I think I have no color prejudices or caste prejudices nor creed prejudices. Indeed I know it. I can stand any society. All that I care to know is that a man is a human being-that is enough for me; he can't be any worse.

Some of us cannot be optimists, but all of us can be bigamists

In a museum in Havana, there are two skulls of Christopher Columbus, one when he was a boy and one when he was a man

My father and I were always on the most distant terms when I was a boy--a sort of armed neutrality, so to speak. At irregular intervals this neutrality was broken, and suffering ensued; but I will be candid enough to say that the breaking and the suffering were always divided up with strict impartiality between us--which is to say, my father did the breaking, and I did the suffering.

Never be haughty to the humble, never be humble to the haughty.