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 Christian's Bible is a drug store. Its contents remain the same, but the medical practice changes.

Explaining humor is a lot like dissecting a frog, you learn a lot in the process, but in the end you kill it.

I'm glad I did it, partly because it was worth it, but mostly because I shall never have to do it again.

We have not the reverent feeling for the rainbow that the savage has, because we know how it is made. We have lost as much as we gained by prying into that matter.

God was left out of the Constitution but was furnished a front seat on the coins of the country.

To be human is to have one's little modicum of romance secreted away in one's composition. One never ceases to make a hero of one's self, (in private,) during life, but only alters the style of heroism from time to time as the drifting years belittle certain gods of his admiration and raise up others in their stead.