Hope: A pathological belief in the occurrence of the impossible.

American journalism (like the journalism of any other country) is predominantly paltry and worthless. Its pretensions are enormous, but its achievements are insignificant.

On one issue, at least, men and women agree. They both distrust women.

In Baltimore, soft crabs are always fried (or broiled) in the altogether, with maybe a small jock-strap of bacon added.

There is no record in the history of a nation that ever gained anything valuable by being unable to defend itself.

The worst government is the most moral.

Of government, at least in democratic states, it may be said briefly that it is an agency engaged wholesale, and as a matter of solemn duty, in the performance of acts which all self-respecting individuals refrain from as a matter of common decency.