Whenever we come upon one of those intensely right words in a book or a newspaper the resulting effect is physical as well as spiritual, and electrically prompt.

Is the human race a joke? Was it devised and patched together in a dull time when there was nothing important to do?

I believe I have no prejudices whatsoever. All I need to know is that a man is a member of the human race. That's bad enough for me.

My land, the power of training! Of influence! Of education! It can bring a body up to believe anything.

Nothing that grieves us can be called little: by the eternal laws of proportion a child's loss of a doll and a king's loss of a crown are events of the same size.

There are several kinds of stories, but only one difficult kind-the humorous.

I have done more for San Francisco than any of its old residents. Since I left there it has increased in population fully 300,000. I could have done more - I could have gone earlier - it was suggested.