A man who keeps company with glaciers comes to feel tolerably insignificant by and by.

I am not an economist. I am an honest man!

In writing, I shall always confine myself strictly to the truth, except when it is attended with inconvenience.

We like to read about rich people in the newspapers; the papers know it, and they do their best to keep this appetite liberally fed.

The joy of killing! the joy of seeing killing done - these are traits of the human race at large.

Dying man couldn't make up his mind which place to go to-both have their advantages, heaven for the climate, hell for the company!

Really, what we want now, is not laws against crime, but a law against insanity. That is where the true evil lies.