A thing long expected takes the form of the unexpected when at last it comes.

But in this country we have one great privilege which they don't have in other countries. When a thing gets to be absolutely unbearable the people can rise up and throw it off. That's the finest asset we've got - the ballot box.

I am pushing sixty. That is enough exercise for me.

The equator was wisely put where it is, because if it had been run through Europe all the kings would have tried to grab it.

One of the proofs of the immortality of the soul is that myriads have believed it. They also believed the world was flat.

A newspaper is not just for reporting the news as it is, but to make people mad enough to do something about it.

It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so.