A person with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.

The law of work does seem utterly unfair-but there it is, and nothing can change it: the higher the pay in enjoyment the worker gets out of it, the higher shall be his pay in cash, too.

Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.

But we are all insane, anyway ... The suicides seem to be the only sane people.

Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness.

The cayote is a living, breathing allegory of Want. He is always hungry. He is always poor, out of luck and friendless. The meanest creatures despise him, and even the fleas would desert him for a velocipede.

When I was younger I could remember anything, whether it happened or not.