He travels the fastest who travels alone.
Down to Gehenna, or up to the Throne, He travels the fastest who travels alone.
If I were hanged on the highest hill, Mother o' mine, O mother o' mine! I know whose love would follow me still Mother o' mine, O mother o' mine!
The first condition of understanding a foreign country is to smell it.
If history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten.
San Francisco is a mad city - inhabited for the most part by perfectly insane people whose women are of a remarkable beauty.
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?'
Everyone is more or less mad on one point.
God could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers.
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew to serve your turn long after they are gone, and so hold on when there is nothing in you except the will which says to them: 'Hold on!'
If I were dammed of body and soul, I know whose prayers would make me whole, mother o' mine o mother o' mine.
And that is called paying the Dane-geld; but we've proved it again and again, that if once you have paid him the Dane-geld you never get rid of the Dane.
A people always ends by resembling its shadow.
I always prefer to believe the best of everybody, it saves so much trouble.
A woman is only a woman, but a good cigar is a smoke.
A man's mind is wont to tell him more than seven watchmen sitting in a tower.