Editor: a person employed by a newspaper, whose business it is to separate the wheat from the chaff, and to see that the chaff is printed.

An imitator is a man who succeeds in being an imitation.

The only foes that threaten America are the enemies at home, and these are ignorance, superstition and incompetence.

Respectability is the dickey on the bosom of civilization.

The fool is not the man who merely does foolish things. The fool is the man who does not know enough to cash in on his foolishness.

We never ask God to forgive anybody except when we haven't.

Perfume: any smell that is used to drown a worse one.