Whenever a copyright law is to be made or altered, then the idiots assemble.

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

The more you join with people in their joys and their sorrows, the more nearer and dearer they come to be to you.

We Americans are the most lavish and showiest and most luxury loving people on the earth; and at our masthead we fly one true and honest symbol, the gaudiest flag the world has ever seen.

Experience comes from bad judgment.

Some of us cannot be optimists, but all of us can be bigamists

That is an editor. He is trying to think of a word. He props his feet on a chair, which is the editor's way; then he can think better. I do not care much for this one; his ears are not alike; still, editor suggests the sound of Edward, and he will do. I could make him better if I had a model, but I made this one from memory. But is no particular matter; they all look alike, anyway. They are conceited and troublesome, and don't pay enough.