The fact of the business is, you've got to be one of two ages to appreciate [Walter] Scott. When you're eighteen you can read Ivanhoe, and you want t… - Mark Twain

No California gentleman or lady ever abuses or oppresses a Chinaman, under any circumstances, an explanation that seems to be much needed in the east. Only the scum of the population do it; they and their children. They, and, naturally and consistently, the policemen and politicians, likewise, for these are the dust-licking pimps and slaves of the scum, there as well as elsewhere in America.

Among the three or four million cradles now rocking in the land are some which this nation would preserve for ages as sacred things, if we could know which ones they are.

The older I get, the more clearly I remember things that never happened.