There is no salvation for us but to adopt Civilization and lift ourselves down to its level.

I heard a Californian student in Heidelberg say, in one of his calmest moods, that he would rather decline two drinks than one German adjective.

A great, great deal has been said about the weather, but very little has ever been done.

Nothing helps scenery like bacon and eggs.

Of all God's creatures, there is only one that cannot be made slave of the leash. That one is the cat. If man could be crossed with the cat it would improve the man, but it would deteriorate the cat.

...nothing so liberalizes a man and expands the kindly instincts that nature put in him as travel and contact with many kinds of people.

Men think they think upon the great political questions, and they do; but they think with their party, not independently; they read its literature, but not that of the other side