If you take epitaphs seriously, we ought to bury the living and resurrect the dead.

There is nothing in the world like persuasive speech to fuddle the mental apparatus.

To believe yourself brave is to be brave; it is the one only essential thing.

She remained both girl and woman to the last day of her life. Under a grave and gentle exterior burned inextinguishable fires of sympathy, energy, devotion, enthusiasm, and absolutely limitless affection.

One frequently only finds out how really beautiful a beautiful woman is after considerable acquaintance with her.

The equator was wisely put where it is, because if it had been run through Europe all the kings would have tried to grab it.

Baseball is the very symbol, the outward and visible expression of the drive and push and rush and struggle of the raging, tearing, booming nineteenth century.