What is too often forgotten is that nature obviously intends the botched to die, and that every interference with that benign process is full of dangers.

I have lived in one house in Baltimore for nearly forty-five years. It has changed in that time, as I have - but somehow it still remains the same. No conceivable decorator's masterpiece could give me the same ease. It is as much a part of me as my two hands. If I had to leave it I'd be as certainly crippled as if I lost a leg.

A wealthy man is one who earns $100 a year more than his wife's sister's husband.

The natural tendency of every government is to grow steadily worse-that is, to grow more satisfactory to those who constitute it and less satisfactory to those who support it.

The sort of man who likes to spend his time watching a cage of monkeys chase one another, or a lion gnaw its tail, or a lizard catch flies, is precisely the sort of man whose mental weakness should be combated at the public expense, not fostered.

Philosophy, as the modern world knows it, is only intellectual club-swinging.

Christian - One who is willing to serve three Gods, but draws the line at one wife.