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.

The face of the water, in time, became a wonderful book- a book that was a dead language to the uneducated passenger, but which told its mind to me without reserve, delivering its most cherished secrets as clearly as if it uttered them with a voice. And it was not a book to be read once and thrown aside, for it had a new story to tell every day.

Always tell the truth; then you don't have to remember anything

Men are more compassionate/(nobler)/magnanimous/generous than God; for men forgive their dead, but God does not.

It has been reported that I was seriously ill--it was another man; dying--it was another man; dead--the other man again...As far as I can see, nothing remains to be reported, except that I have become a foreigner. When you hear it, don't you believe it. And don't take the trouble to deny it. Merely just raise the American flag on our house in Hartford and let it talk.

You can't reason someone out of something that they weren't reasoned into in the first place.

We do not get ice-cream every where, and so, when we do, we are apt to dissipate to excess.