If man is not the image of God, then he is a disease of the dust.

There is a case for telling the truth; there is a case for avoiding the scandal; but there is no possible defense for the man who tells the scandal, but does not tell the truth

Always be comic in a tragedy. What the deuce else can you do?

For good or evil, a line has been passed in our political history; and something that we have known all our lives is dead. I will take only one example of it: our politicians can no longer be caricatured.

If our caricaturists do not hate their enemies, it is not because they are too big to hate them, but because their enemies are not big enough to hate.

It is as healthy to enjoy sentiment as to enjoy jam.

When you have really exhausted an experience you always reverence and love it.