The only way to success in American public life lies in flattering and kowtowing to the mob

What ass first let loose the doctrine that the suffrage is a high boon and voting a noble privilege?

I devoured hot-dogs in Baltimore 'way back in 1886, and they were then very far from newfangled...They contained precisely the same rubber, indigestible pseudo-sausages that millions of Americans now eat, and they leaked the same flabby, puerile mustard. Their single point of difference lay in the fact that their covers were honest German Wecke made of wheat-flour baked to crispiness, and not the soggy rolls prevailing today, of ground acorns, plaster-of-Paris, flecks of bath-sponge, and atmospheric air all compact.

The chief knowledge that's man on from reading books is the knowledge that very few of them are worth reading.

Every lynching deprives its victim of his life without due process of law, and denies him an equal protection of the law. The States are charged with punishing all such invasions as the common rights of the citizens, but some of them have failed in their effort to do so, and others have not honestly tried. Meanwhile, lynchings continue, and though they do not increase in number, they show some tendency to increase in savagery.

The verdict of a jury is the a priori opinion of that juror who smokes the worst cigars.

Absence is the dark-room in which lovers develop negatives.