Strip the human race, absolutely naked, and it would be a real democracy. But the introduction of even a rag of tiger skin, or a cowtail, could make a badge of distinction and be the beginning of a monarchy.

There are several kinds of stories, but only one difficult kind-the humorous.

At 50, a man can be an ass without being an optimist but not an optimist without being an ass

Yes, even I am dishonest. Not in many ways, but in some. Forty-one, I think it is.

If there is a God, he is a malign thug.

It is the will of God that we must have critics, and missionaries, and Congressmen, and humorists, and we must bear the burden. Meantime, I seem to have been drifting into criticism myself. But that is nothing. At the worst, criticism is nothing more than a crime, and I am not unused to that.

The unspoken word is capital. We can invest it or we can squander it.