The American government is a rule of the people, by the people, for the bosses.
A hole is nothing at all, but you can break your neck in it.
Those who listen to lies lose the ability to hear the truth.
Some men are like a church-organ -- you can play on them for a lifetime and always find new harmonies; others are like a music-box -- they have four or five thin jingles.
Reason clears and plants the wilderness of the imagination to harvest the wheat of art.
The worst misfortune that can happen to an ordinary man is to have an extraordinary father.