It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.

Nations do not think, they only feel. They get their feelings at second hand through their temperaments, not their brains. A nation can be brought -- by force of circumstances, not argument -- to reconcile itself to any kind of government or religion that can be devised; in time it will fit itself to the required conditions; later it will prefer them and will fiercely fight for them.

In my nostrils still lives the breath of flowers that perished twenty years ago.

There is nothing in the world like a persuasive speech to fuddle the mental apparatus and upset the convictions and debauch the emotions of an audience not practiced in the tricks and delusions of oratory

Out of the unconscious lips of babes and sucklings are we satirized.

It's a good thing for a dog to have fleas; keeps his mind off being a dog.

It must be well-nigh a maximum of sense to behave so that one escapes being hanged.