“I was gratified to be able to answer promptly, and I did. I said I didn’t know.”

“To cease smoking is the easiest thing I ever did. I ought to know because I've done it a thousand times.”

“I did not attend his funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it.”

“I did not steal your paltry goods!”

“Bridgeport?" Said I."Camelot," Said he.”

“I am quite sure ... I have no race prejudice, and I think I have no color prejudices, nor caste prejudices. Indeed, I know it. I can stand any society. All I care to know is that a man is a human being—this is enough for me; he can’t be any worse.”

“The boys were amazed that I could make such a poem as that out of my own head, and so was I, of course, it being as much a surprise to me as it could be to anybody, for I did not know that it was in me. If any had asked me a single day before if it was in me, I should have told them frankly no, it was not.That is the way with us; we may go on half of our life not knowing such a thing is in us, when in reality it was there all the time, and all we needed was something to turn up that would call for it.”