The music critic, Huneber, could never quite make up his mind about a new symphony until he had seen the composer's mistress.

As long as the Southern colleges have revivals on their campuses and students get converted to Methodism and join the YMCA and are accepted as gentlemen, it will be impossible to think of the South as civilized...The educated folk of the Old South took theology lightly, and religion to them was hardly more than a charming ritual, useful on solemn occassions.

Truth - Something somehow discreditable to someone.

Firmness in decision is often merely a form of stupidity. It indicates an inability to think the same thing out twice.

Any defeat, however trivial, may be fatal to a savior of the plain people. They never admire a messiah with a bloody nose.

No sane man objects to palpable lies about him; what he objects to is damaging facts.

The plain people, hereafter as in the past, will continue to make their own language, and the best that grammarians can do is to follow after it, haltingly, and not often with much insight into it.