In other localities certain places in the streams are much better than others, but at Niagara one place is just as good as another, for the reason that the fish do not bite anywhere.

By common consent of all the nations and all the ages the most valuable thing in this world is the homage of men, whether deserved or undeserved.

The law is a system that protects everybody who can afford to hire a good lawyer.

Switzerland would me a mighty big place if it were ironed flat.

I like the truth sometimes, but I don't care enough for it to hanker after it.

I have never heard enough classical music to be able to enjoy it; & the simple truth is, I detest it. Not mildly, but will all my heart. To me an opera is the very climax & cap-stone of the absurd, the fantastic the unjustifiable. I hate the very name of opera - partly because of the nights of suffering I have endured in its presence, & partly because I want to love it and can't.

The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don't want, drink what you don't like, and do what you'd rather not.