It is a dear and lovely disposition, and a most valuable one, that can brush away indignities and discourtesies and seek and find the pleasanter features of an experience.

The less a man knows the bigger the noise he makes and the higher the salary he commands.

Switzerland is simply a large, lumpy, solid rock with a thin skin of grass stretched over it.

the size of a misfortune is not determinable by an outsider’s measurement of it but only by the measurements applied to it by the person specially affected by it.

I have done more for San Francisco than any of its old residents. Since I left there it has increased in population fully 300,000. I could have done more - I could have gone earlier - it was suggested.

The human race is a race of cowards; and I am not only marching in that procession but carrying a banner.

Never allow someone to be your priority while allowing yourself to be their option.