Single men in barricks don't grow into plaster saints.

Many religious people are deeply suspicious. They seem, for purely religious purposes, of course, to know more about iniquity than the unregenerate.

Politics are not my concern.... They impressed me as a dog's life without a dog's decencies.

All the money in the world is no use to a man or his country if he spends it as fast as he makes it. All he has left is his bills and the reputation for being a fool.

I always prefer to believe the best of everybody, it saves so much trouble.

I have seen something of this world," she said over the trays, "and there are but two sorts of women in it-- those who take the strength out of a man, and those who put it back. Once I was that one, and now I am this.

The American has no language, he has a dialect, slang, provincialism, accent and so forth