I don’t believe there is anything in the whole earth that you can’t learn in Berlin except the German language.
I could never learn to like her, except on a raft at sea with no other provisions in sight.
Until I came to New Mexico, I never realized how much beauty water adds to a river.
Of course, no man is entirely in his right mind at any time.
How lovely is death; and how niggardly it is doled out.
An open mind leaves a chance for someone to drop a worthwhile thought in it.
An adventure is something that while it’s happening you wish it wasn’t.
Prohibition only drives drunkenness behind doors and into dark places, and does not cure it or even diminish it.
Cherimoya, the most delicious fruit known to men.
We all do no end of feeling, and we mistake it for thinking. And out of it we get an aggregation which we consider a boon. Its name is public opinion. It is held in reverence. Some think it the voice of God.
There are two things nobody should ever have to watch being made, sausage and laws.
That is the way we are made: we don’t reason, where we feel; we just feel.
No sane man can be happy, for to him life is real, and he sees what a fearful thing it is.
It is the will of God that we must have critics, and missionaries, and Congressmen, and humorists, and we must bear the burden. Meantime, I seem to have been drifting into criticism myself. But that is nothing. At the worst, criticism is nothing more than a crime, and I am not unused to that.
All gentle cant and philosophizing to the contrary notwithstanding, no people in this world ever did achieve their freedom by goody-goody talk and moral suasion: it being immutable law that all revolutions that will succeed, must begin in blood.
Demagogue – a vessel containing beer and other liquids.
Geological time is not money.
The low level which commercial morality has reached in America is deplorable. We have humble God fearing Christian men among us who will stoop to do things for a million dollars that they ought not to be willing to do for less than 2 millions.
No throne exists that has a right to exist, and no symbol of it, flying from any flagstaff, is righteously entitled to wear any device but the skull and crossbones of that kindred industry which differs from royalty only businesswise-merely as retail differs from wholesale.
No temperance society which is well officered and which has the real good of our fellow-men in view, will ever get drunk save in the seclusion of its temperance hall.