Reality can be beaten with enough imagination.

The way it is now, the asylums can hold the sane people, but if we tried to shut up the insane we should run out of building materials.

It was in Warwick Castle that I came across the curious stranger whom I am going to talk about. He attracted me by three things: his candid simplicity, his marvelous familiarity with ancient armor, and the restfulness of his company--for he did all the talking.

In all my travels the thing that has impressed me the most is the universal brotherhood of man-what there is of it.

Why waste your money looking up your family tree? Just go into politics and your opponent will do it for you.

Patriot: the person who can holler the loudest without knowing what he is hollering about.

I never could keep a promise. I do not blame myself for this weakness, because the fault must lie in my physical organization. It is likely that such a very liberal amount of space was given to the organ which enables me to make promises that the organ which should enable me to keep them was crowded out. But I grieve not. I like no half-way things. I had rather have one faculty nobly developed than two faculties of mere ordinary capacity.