You perceive I generalize with intrepidity from single instances. It is the tourist's custom.

A man's first duty is to his own conscience and honor; the party and country come second to that, and never first.

The rule is perfect: in all matters of opinion our adversaries are insane.

There is nothing training cannot do. Nothing is above its reach. It can turn bad morals to good; it can destroy bad principles and recreate good ones; it can lift men to angelship.

I think we never become really and genuinely our entire and honest selves until we are dead--and not then until we have been dead years and years. People ought to start dead, and they would be honest so much earlier.

The piano may do for love-sick girls who lace themselves to skeletons, and lunch on chalk, pickles and slate pencils, but give me the banjo.

Against a diseased imagination demonstration goes for nothing.