The frankest and freest and privatest product of the human mind and heart is a love letter.

...nothing so liberalizes a man and expands the kindly instincts that nature put in him as travel and contact with many kinds of people.

It is better to be a young June-bug than an old bird of paradise.

One of life's most over-valued pleasures is sexual intercourse; of one of life's least appreciated pleasures in defecation.

I've come loaded with statistics, for I've noticed that a man can't prove anything without statistics. No man can.

To go abroad has something of the same sense that death brings. I am no longer of ye-what ye say of me is now of no consequence.

The past does not repeat itself, but it rhymes.