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

The ignorant are afraid to betray surprise or admiration...they think it ill manners.

Remember this, take this to heart, live by it, die for it if necessary: that our patriotism is medieval, outworn, obsolete; that the modern patriotism, the true patriotism, the only rational patriotism, is loyalty to the Nation ALL the time, loyalty to the Government when it deserves it.

You need not expect to get your book right the first time. Go to work and revamp or rewrite it. God only exhibits his thunder and lightning at intervals, and so they always command attention. These are God's adjectives. You thunder and lightning too much; the reader ceases to get under the bed, by and by.

No child should be permitted to grow up without exercise for imagination. It enriches life for him. It makes things wonderful and beautiful.

Truth is neither alive nor dead; it just aggravates itself all the time.

To place man properly at the present time, he stands somewhere between the angels and the French.