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

As to the human race. There are many pretty and winning things about the human race. It is perhaps the poorest of all the inventions of all the gods but it has never suspected it once. There is nothing prettier than its naive and complacent appreciation of itself. It comes out frankly and proclaims without bashfulness or any sign of a blush that it is the noblest work of God. It has had a billion opportunities to know better, but all signs fail with this ass. I could say harsh things about it but I cannot bring myself to do it-it is like hitting a child.

A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way.

Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.

I was an arden Hayes man, but that was natural, for I was pretty young at the time, I have since convinced myself that the political opinioins of a nation are of next to no value, in any case, but that what little rag of value they posess is to be found among the old, rather than among the young.

The average American's simplest and commonest form of breakfast consists of coffee and beefsteak.

great people are those who make others feel that they, too, can become great.