The easy part of being an artist is figuring out the message that everyone else is ready to hear. The hard part is waiting for the proper lull to make the announcement.

We can't always have the beautiful aspect of things. Let us make the most of our sights that are beautiful and let the others go

...one of the first achievements of the legislature was to institute a ten-thousand-dollar agricultural fair to show off forty dollars' worth of pumpkins in - however, the Territorial legislature was usually spoken of as the "asylum".

In statesmanship get formalities right, never mind about the moralities.

A banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining, but wants it back the minute it begins to rain.

A jackass has that kind of strength, and puts it to a useful purpose, and is valuable to the world because he is a jackass; but anobleman is not valuable because he is a jackass. It is a mixture that is always ineffectual, and should never have been attempted in the first place. And yet, once you start a mistake, the trouble is done and you never know what is going to come of it.

Such is professional jealousy; a scientist will never show any kindness for a theory which he did not start himself.