Moralizing, I observed, then, that "all that glitters is not gold."
Mr. Ballou said I could go further than that, and lay it up among my treasures
of knowledge, that nothing that glitters is gold. So I learned then, once for
all, that gold in its native state is but dull, unornamental stuff, and that
only lowborn metals excite the admiration of the ignorant with an ostentatious
glitter. However, like the rest of the world, I still go on underrating men
of gold and glorifying men of mica. Commonplace human nature cannot rise above
that.
- Roughing It
...a delightful woman--looks just as if she'd stepped out of the new testament,
and hadn't got used to her surroundings yet...
- quoted in Isabel Lyon's Journal, 1/8/1906
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