There ain't anything that is so interesting to look at as a place that a book has talked about.

How slow and still the time did drag along.

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.

He wa'n't no common dog, he wa'n't no mongrel; he was a composite. A composite dog is a dog that is made up of all the valuable qualities that's in the dog breed-kind of a syndicate; and a mongrel is made up of all riffraff that's left over.

There is probably no pleasure equal to the pleasure of climbing a dangerous Alp; but it is a pleasure which is confined strictly to people who can find pleasure in it.

If you have nothing to say, say nothing.

What ought to be done to the man who invented the celebrating of anniversaries? Mere killing would be too light.