What is there in Rome for me to see that others have not seen before me? What is there for me to touch that others have not touched? What is there for me to feel, to learn, to hear, to know, that shall thrill me before it pass to others? What can I discover?--Nothing. Nothing whatsoever. One charm of travel dies here.

The average American's simplest and commonest form of breakfast consists of coffee and beefsteak.

It is just like man's vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions.

If your only tool is a hammer, everything starts to look like a nail.

The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks, and starting on the first one.

I was standing in our dining-room thinking of nothing in particular, when a cablegram was put into my hand. It said, 'Susy was peacefully released today.' It is one of the mysteries of our nature that a man, all unprepared, can receive a thunder-stroke like that and live.

One of the proofs of the immortality of the soul is that myriads have believed it. They also believed the world was flat.