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

There's plenty of boys that will come hankering and gruvvelling around when you've got an apple, and beg the core off you; but when they're got one, and you beg for the core, and remind them how you give them a core one time, they take a mouth at you, and say thank you 'most to death, but there ain't a-going to be no core.

Conscience, man's moral medicine chest.

I never write Metropolis for seven cents because I can get the same price for city. I never write policeman because I can get the same money for cop.

In all my travels the thing that has impressed me the most is the universal brotherhood of man-what there is of it.

Some men worship rank, some worship heroes, some worship power, some worship God, and over these ideals they dispute-but they all worship money.

In our day we don't allow a hundred and thirty years to elapse between glimpses of a marvel. If somebody should discover a creek in the county next to the one that the North Pole is in, Europe and America would start fifteen costly expeditions thither; one to explore the creek, and the other fourteen to hunt for each other.