Th' first thing to have in a libry is a shelf. Fr'm time to time this can be decorated with lithrachure. But th' shelf is th' main thing.

High finance isn't burglary or obtaining money by false pretenses, but rather a judicious selection from the best features of those fine arts.

Politics ain't beanbag: 'tis a man's game, and women, children 'n' pro-hy-bitionists had best stay out of it.

There aint any news in being good. You might write the doings of all the convents of the world on the back of a postage stamp, and have room to spare.

A rayformer thinks he was ilicted because he was a rayformer, whin th thruth iv th matther is he was ilicted because no wan knew him.

A lie with a purpose is one of the worst kind, and the most profitable

That is, no matther whether th' constitution follows th' flag or not, th' supreme coort follows th' iliction returns.