Enthusiasm is caught, not taught.

Civilization is a limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities.

I have tried getting up early, and I have tried getting up late-and the latter agrees with me best.

Those people.... early stricken of God, intellectually - the departmental interpreters of the laws in Washington... can always be depended on to take any reasonably good law and interpret the common sense all out of it.

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

Missionarying was a better thing in those days than it is in ours. All you had to do was to cure the head savage´s sick daughter by a miracle- a miracle like the miracle of Lourdes in our day, for instance- and immediately that head savage was your convert, and filled to the eyes with a new convert´s enthusiasm. You could sit down and make yourself easy now. He would take the ax and convert the rest of the nation himself.

If the desire to kill and the opportunity to kill came always together, who would escape hanging?