Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.

Often a quite assified remark becomes sanctified by use and petrified by custom; it is then a permanency, its term of activity a geologic period.

Where prejudice exists it always discolors our thoughts.

All large political doctrines are rich in difficult problems - problems that are quite above the average citizen's reach. And that is not strange, since they are also above the reach of the ablest minds in the country; after all the fuss and all the talk, not one of those doctrines has been conclusively proven to be the right one and the best.

If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way.

A successful book is not made of what is in it, but what is left out of it.

His ignorance covers the world like a blanket, and there's scarcely a hole in it anywhere.