An ecstasy is a thing that will not go into words; it feels like music.

A powerful agent is the right word. Whenever we come upon one of those intensely right words in a book or newspaper the resulting effect is physical as well as spiritual, and electrically prompt.

There is not an acre of ground on the globe that is in possession of its rightful owner, or that has not been taken away from owner after owner, cycle afer cycle, by force and bloodshed.

The southerner talks music.

The waves most washed me off the raft sometimes, but I hadn't any clothes on, and didn't mind.

No one can tell me what is a good cigar - for me. I am the only judge. People who claim to know say that I smoke the worst cigars in the world. They bring their own cigars when they come to my house.

The human race was always interesting and we know by its past that it will always continue so, monotonously.