I was armed to the teeth with a pitiful little Smith & Wesson's seven-shooter, which carried a ball like a homopathic pill, and it took the whole seven to make a dose for an adult. But I thought it was grand. It appeared to me to be a dangerous weapon. It had only one fault - you could not hit anything with it.

The physician who knows only medicine, knows not even medicine.

Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.

Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do. Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.

There are no standards of taste in wine... Each man's own taste is the standard, and a majority vote cannot decide for him or in any slightest degree affect the supremacy of his own standard.

The country is the real thing, the substantial thing, the eternal thing, it is the thing to watch over and care for and be loyal to; institutions are extraneous. . . .

Those who say truth is stranger than fiction have wasted their time on poorly written fiction.