The good Lord didn't create anything without a purpose, but the fly comes close.

She is not refined. She is not unrefined. She keeps a parrot

I am an anti-imperialist. I am opposed to having the eagle put its talons on any other land.

A wanton waste of projectiles.

Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.

It was a splendid population - for all the slow, sleepy, sluggish-brained sloths stayed at home - you never find that sort of people among pioneers - you cannot build pioneers out of that sort of material. It was that population that gave to California a name for getting up astounding enterprises and rushing them through with a magnificent dash and daring and a recklessness of cost or consequences, which she bears unto this day - and when she projects a new surprise the grave world smiles as usual and says, "Well, that is California all over.

The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right.