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

San Francisco is a mad city - inhabited for the most part by perfectly insane people whose women are of a remarkable beauty.

If history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten.

Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.

A woman is only a woman, but a good cigar is a smoke.

Borrow trouble for yourself, if that's your nature, but don't lend it to your neighbours.

The first condition of understanding a foreign country is to smell it.

Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.

Gardens are not made by singing 'Oh, how beautiful,' and sitting in the shade.

Heaven grant us patience with a man in love.

And the first rude sketch that the world had seen was joy to his mighty heart, till the Devil whispered behind the leaves 'It's pretty, but is it Art?'

God could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers.

All the people like us are we, and everyone else is They.

We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse.

An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy.

He travels the fastest who travels alone.