One horse-laugh is worth ten-thousand syllogisms.

The storm center of lawlessness in every American State is the State Capitol. It is there that the worst crimes are committed; it is there that lawbreaking attains to the estate and dignity of a learned profession; it is there that contempt for the laws is engendered, fostered, and spread broadcast.

He sailed through American history like a steel ship loaded with monoliths of granite.

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

Setting aside the vast herd which shows no definable character at all, it seems to me that the minority distinguished by what is commonly regarded as an excess of sin is very much more admirable than the minority distinguished by an excess of virtue. My experience of the world has taught me that the average wine-bibbler is a far better fellow than the average prohibitionist, and that the average rogue is better company than the average poor drudge, and that the worst white-slave trader of my acquaintance is a decenter man than the best vice crusader.

Never drink if you've got any work to do. Never.

If I ever mary, it will be on a suddn impulse - as aman shoots himself