Christendom has had a series of revolutions and in each one of them Christianity has died. Christianity has died many times and risen again; for it had a God who knew the way out of the grave.

...a figure of speech can often get into a crack too small for a definition.

All men thirst to confess their crimes more than tired beasts thirst for water; but they naturally object to confessing them while other people, who have also committed the same crimes, sit by and laugh at them.

People that insist upon drinking and driving, are putting the quart before the hearse.

America is the only nation in the world that is founded on creed. That creed is set forth with dogmatic and even theological lucidity in the Declaration of Independence; perhaps the only piece of practical politics that is also theoretical politics and also great literature.

The one stream of poetry which is continually flowing is slang.

When learned men begin to use their reason, then I generally discover that they haven't got any.