Geological time is not money.

More than once I had seen a noble who had gotten his enemy at a disadvantage stop to pray before cutting his throat.

Out of the unconscious lips of babes and sucklings are we satirized.

We can't reach old age by another man's road.

There is a sumptuous variety about the New England weather... In the spring I have counted one hundred and twenty-six different kinds of weather inside of four and twenty hours.

It is yet another Civilized Power, with its banner of the Prince of Peace in one hand and its loot-basket and its butcher-knife in the other. Is there no salvation for us but to adopt Civilization and lift ourselves down to its level?.

Always tell the truth; then you don't have to remember anything