A banquet is probably the most fatiguing thing in the world except ditch digging.

Shall we go on conferring our Civilization upon the peoples that sit in darkness, or shall we give those poor things a rest?

No real gentleman will tell the naked truth in the presence of ladies.

You perceive I generalize with intrepidity from single instances. It is the tourist's custom.

Writing is the easiest thing in the world.... Just try it sometime. I sit up with a pipe in my mouth and a board on my knees and I scribble away.

Ignorance is not, not knowing something. It is knowing what isn't so.

Next to possessing genius one's self is the power of appreciating it in others.