No sane man can be happy, for to him life is real, and he sees what a fearful thing it is.

An occultation of Venus is not half so difficult as an eclipse of the sun, but because it comes seldom the world thinks it's a grand thing.

I fell in love with the most cordial and sociable city in the Union.

When you feel like tellin a feller to go to the devil - tell him to go to Chicago - it'll anser every purpose, and is perhaps, a leetle more expensive.

I thoroughly believe that any man who's got anything worthwhile to say will be heard if he only says it often enough.

in order to make a man or boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to attain.

No church property is taxed and so the infidel and the atheist and the man without religion are taxed to make up the deficit.