It is our nature to conform; it is a force which not many can successfully resist. What is its seat? The inborn requirement of self-approval.

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. . . .

Where prejudice exists it always discolors our thoughts.

There was a great difference in boats, of course. For a long time I was on a boat that was so slow we used to forget what year it was we left port in.

Are you so unobservant as not to have found out that sanity and happiness are an impossible combination?

The ignorant are afraid to betray surprise or admiration...they think it ill manners.

Never pick a fight with people who buy ink by the barrel.