You perceive, now, that these things are all impossible except in a dream. You perceive that they are pure and puerile insanities, the silly creations of an imagination that is not conscious of its freaks - in a word, that they are a dream, and you the maker of it. The dream-marks are all present; you should have recognized them earlier.

I used to think my father was an idiot, until I turned twenty-one... Then I thought he was a genus.

Habit is habit, and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed down-stairs one step at a time.

I hope all of us may eventually be together in everlasting peace and bliss -- except the inventor of the #‎ telephone .

What, sir, would the people of the earth be without woman? They would be scarce, sir, almighty scarce.

We regret the things we don't do more than the things we do.

The symbol of the race ought to be a human being carrying an ax, for every human being has one concealed about him somewhere, and is always seeking the opportunity to grind it.