For the majority of us, the past is a regret, the future an experiment

When it comes down to pure ornamental cursing, the native American is gifted above the sons of men.

I've seen many troubles in my time, only half of which ever came true.

I do not know what we should do without the pulpit. We could better spare the sun-the moon, anyway.

I simply can´t resist a cat, particularly a purring one. They are the cleanest, cunningest, and most intelligent things I know, outside of the girl you love, of course.

I have always been rather better treated in San Francisco than I actually deserved.

A myriad of men are born; they labor and sweat and struggle; ...they squabble and scold and fight; they scramble for little mean advantages over each other; age creeps upon them; infirmities follow; ...those they love are taken from them, and the joy of life is turned to aching grief. It comes at last--the only unpoisoned gift earth ever had for them--and they vanish from a world where they were of no consequence, ...a world which will lament them a day and forget them forever.