Now is the accepted time to make your regular annual good resolutions. Next week you can begin paving hell with them as usual.

Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits. Fanatics will never learn that, though it be written in letters of gold across the sky. It is the prohibition that makes anything precious.

Fleas can be taught nearly anything a congressman can.

Independence-is loyalty to one's best self and principles, and this is often disloyalty to the general idols and fetishes.

Baseball is the very symbol, the outward and visible expression of the drive and push and rush and struggle of the raging, tearing, booming nineteenth century.

It is strange the way the ignorant and inexperienced so often and so undeservedly succeed when the informed and the experienced fail.

Do something everyday that you don't want to do; this is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain.