What is the difference between a taxidermist and a tax collector? The taxidermist takes only your skin.

I was educated once - it took me years to get over it.

Don't go to sleep, so many people die there.

We have not all had the good fortune to be ladies. We have not all been generals, or poets, or statesmen; but when the toast works down to the babies, we stand on common ground.

I wish I could make him understand that a loving good heart is riches enough, and that without it intellect is poverty.

On with dance, let joy be unconfined, is my motto; whether there's any dance to dance or any joy to unconfined.

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.