Senator: Person who makes laws in Washington when not doing time.

The writing begins when you’ve finished. Only then do you know what you’re trying to say.

That is just the way with some people. They get down on a thing when they don’t know nothing about it.

A myriad of men are born; they labor and sweat and struggle; ...they squabble and scold and fight; they scramble for little mean advantages over each other; age creeps upon them; infirmities follow; ...those they love are taken from them, and the joy of life is turned to aching grief. It comes at last--the only unpoisoned gift earth ever had for them--and they vanish from a world where they were of no consequence, ...a world which will lament them a day and forget them forever.

Why is it that, among men, physical courage is a trait so plenteous yet moral courage is a trait so rare?

You can't reason with your heart; it has its own laws, and thumps about things which the intellect scorns.

It liberates the vandal to travel-you never saw a bigoted, opinionated, stubborn, narrow-minded, self-conceited, almighty mean man in your life but he had stuck in one place since he was born and thought God made the world and dyspepsia and bile for his especial comfort and satisfaction.