“I have a memory like an elephant. I remember every elephant I've ever met.”

“Cockroaches and socialites are the only things that can stay up all night and eat anything.”

“The only thing wrong with immortality is that it tends to go on forever.”

“I hope I go to Heaven, and when I do, I'm going to do what every San Franciscan does when he gets there. He looks around and says, 'It ain't bad, but it ain't San Francisco.'”

“A city is not gauged by its length and width, but by the broadness of its vision and the height of its dreams.”

“Americans are pragmatic, relatively uncomplicated, hearty and given to broad humor.”

“Lost Time is never found again.”

“How you spend your time is more important than how you spend your money. Money mistakes can be corrected, but time is gone forever.”

“Men talk of killing time, while time quietly kills them.”

“When man will return to nature, nature will return to him.”

“The sky is an enormous man.”

“When the full-grown poet came,Out spake pleased Nature (the round impassive globe, with all its shows of day and night,) saying, He is mine;But out spake too the Soul of man, proud, jealous and unr...”