I have at last, after several months' experience, made up my mind that [New York] is a splendid desert--a domed and steepled solitude, where the stranger is lonely in the midst of a million of his race.

I saw a startling sight today, a politician with his hands in his own pockets.

I like Joan of Arc best of all my books; and it is the best; I know it perfectly well.

Dance like nobody's looking.

Time spent with your children is time wisely spent.

There is a great difference between feeding parties to wild beasts and stirring up their finer feelings in an inquisition. One is the system of degraded barbarians, the other of enlightened civilized people.

There is no use in your walking five miles to fish when you can depend on being just as unsuccessful near home.