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

He said that man’s heart was the only bad heart in the animal kingdom; that man was the only animal capable of feeling malice, envy, vindictiveness, revengefulness, hatred, selfishness, the only animal that loves drunkenness, almost the only animal that could endure personal uncleanliness and a filthy habitation, the sole animal in whom was fully developed the base instinct called patriotism, the sole animal that robs, persecutes, oppresses and kills members of his own tribe, the sole animal that steals and enslaves the members of any tribe.

What a good thing Adam had. When he said a good thing he knew nobody had said it before.

We are always more anxious to be distinguished for a talent which we do not possess, than to be praised for the fifteen which we do possess.

I don't give a damn for a man that can only spell a word one way.

When it comes down to pure ornamental cursing, the native American is gifted above the sons of men.

In Boston they ask, how much does he know? In New York, how much is he worth? In Philadelphia, who were his parents?