The cure for the evils of democracy is more democracy.

The most valuable of all human possessions, next to a superior and disdainful air, is the reputation of being well-to-do.

The American people, North and South, went into the [Civil] war as citizens of their respective states, they came out as subjects ... what they thus lost they have never got back.

One horse-laugh is worth ten thousand syllogisms. It is not only more effective; it is also vastly more intelligent.

Why assume so glibly that the God who presumably created the universe is still running it? It is certainly conceivable that He may have finished it and then turned it over to lesser gods to operate.

Living with a dog is easy- like living with an idealist.

Puccini - silver macaroni, exquisitely tangled.