We have had more brilliant Presidents than Cleveland, and one or two who were considerably more profound, but we have never had one, at least since Washington, whose fundamental character was solider and more admirable.

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

Every failure teaches a man something, to wit, that he will probably fail again.

My guess is that well over eighty per cent. of the human race goes through life without having a single original thought.

Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in their readiness to doubt.

As if paralyzed by the national fear of ideas, the democratic distrust of whatever strikes beneath the prevailing platitudes, it evades all resolute and honest dealing with what, after all, must be every healthy literature's elementary materials.

Socialist: A man suffering from an overwhelming conviction to believe what is not true.