In America-as elsewhere-free speech is confined to the dead.

Familiarity breeds contempt. How accurate that is. The reason we hold truth in such respect is because we have so little opportunity to get familiar with it.

Only he who has seen better days and lives to see better days again knows their full value.

I am not the editor of a newspaper and shall always try to do right and be good so that God will not make me one.

If you send a damned fool to St. Louis, and you don't tell them he's a damned fool, they'll never find out.

You are a coward when you even seem to have backed down from a thing you openly set out to do

In this age of inventive wonders all men have come to believe that in some genius' brain sleeps the solution of the grand problem of aerial navigation-and along with that belief is the hope that that genius will reveal his miracle before they die, and likewise a dread that he will poke off somewhere and die himself before he finds out that he has such a wonder lying dormant in his brain. We all know the air can be navigated-therefore, hurry up your sails and bladders-satisfy us-let us have peace.