Eight grown Americans out of ten dread the coming of the Fourth, with its pandemonium and its perils, and they rejoice when it is gone-if still alive.

There is nothing in the world like persuasive speech to fuddle the mental apparatus.

Just because you’re taught that something’s right and everyone believes it’s right, it don’t make it right.

It was wonderful to find America, but it would have been more wonderful to miss it.

Carlyle said 'a lie cannot live.' It shows that he did not know how to tell them.

If men bore children, there would only be one born in each family.

There's something in it when a body like the widow or the parson prays, but it don't work for me, and I reckon it don't work for only just the right kind.