The fact is, the king was a good deal more than a king, he was a man; and when a man is a man, you can't knock it out of him.

Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be.

It is at our mother's knee that we acquire our noblest and truest and highest ideals.

A half-educated physician is not valuable. He thinks he can cure everything.

It{California} is the land where the fabled Aladdin's Lamp lies buried-and she {San Francisco} is the new Aladdin who shall seize it from its obscurity and summon the genie and command him to crown her with power and greatness and bring to her feet the hoarded treasures of the earth.

Modesty antedates clothes and will be resumed when clothes are no more.

Does the human being reason? No; he thinks, muses, reflects, but does not reason...that is, in the two things which are the peculiar domain of the heart, not the mind, politics and religion. He doesn't want to know the other side. He wants arguments and statistics for his own side, and nothing more.