The Independence Of All Political And Other

An Amazing Invention - But Who Would Ever Want To Use One?

He [william Merritt Chase] Is, I Suspect, Getting A Very Truthful Likeness. I Would Like It Better If [it] Was Not So Gray, So Cramped About The Eyes, And Not Quite So Corpulent. But Is This Not Quarreling With Nature?

[t]his Free And Easy Old-bachelor Sort Of Life Is Quite Full Of Fun And Jollity. Pease And Myself Room Together; And Everything Like Order And Neatness Is Banished From Our Presence As A Nuisance--old Letters And Old Boots And Shoes, Duds Clean And Duds Dirty, Books And Newspapers, Tooth-brushes, Shoe-brushes, And Clothes-brushes, All Heaped Together On Chairs, Settees, Etc., In Dusty And "most Admired Confusion." Now, What Is There Imaginable In Clean, Tidy Private Life Equal To This?

If Any Of My Men Kill Prisoners, I'll Kill Them.

I Have A Talent For Silence And Brevity. I Can Keep Silent When It Seems Best To Do So, And When I Speak I Can, And Do Usually, Quit When I Am Done. This Talent, Or These Two Talents, I Have Cultivated. Silence And Concise, Brief Speaking Have Got Me Some Laurels, And, I Suspect, Lost Me Some. No Odds. Do What Is Natural To You, And You Are Sure To Get All The Recognition You Are Entitled To.