Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else.

A Patriot is someone who stands for his country always, and for his government when it is deserved.

There have been innumerable Temporary Seekers after the Truth-have you ever heard of a permanent one?

I would like to live in Manchester, England. The transition between Manchester and death would be unnoticeable.

It was a splendid population - for all the slow, sleepy, sluggish-brained sloths stayed at home - you never find that sort of people among pioneers - you cannot build pioneers out of that sort of material. It was that population that gave to California a name for getting up astounding enterprises and rushing them through with a magnificent dash and daring and a recklessness of cost or consequences, which she bears unto this day - and when she projects a new surprise the grave world smiles as usual and says, "Well, that is California all over.

I've come loaded with statistics, for I've noticed that a man can't prove anything without statistics. No man can.

I have seen an entire family lifted out of poverty and into affluence by the simple boon of a broken leg. I have had people come to me on crutches, with tears in their eyes, to bless this beneficient institution. In all my experiences of life, I have seen nothing so seraphic as the look that comes into a freshly mutilated man's face when he feels in his vest pocket with his remaining hand and finds his accident ticket all right.