A wise man does not waste so good a commodity as lying for naught.

It is agreed, in this country, that if a man can arrange his religion so that it perfectly satisfies his conscience, it is not incumbent on him to care whether the arrangement is satisfactory to anyone else or not.

The real yellow peril: Gold.

Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run. Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.

It is often the case that a man who can't tell a lie thinks he is the best judge of one.

Man is the only animal that is cruel. It kills just for the sake of it.

A man who keeps company with glaciers comes to feel tolerably insignificant by and by.