The rule is perfect: in all matters of opinion our adversaries are insane.

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.

A lie can make it half way around the world before the truth has time to put its boots on.

It has been said that a Scotchman has not seen the world until he has seen Edinburgh; and I think that I may say that an American has not seen the United States until he has seen Mardi Gras in New Orleans.

Literature is well enough, as a time-passer, and for the improvement and general elevation and purification of mankind, but it has no practical value.

There ought to be a room in every house to swear in. It's dangerous to have to repress an emotion like that.

To go abroad has something of the same sense that death brings. I am no longer of ye-what ye say of me is now of no consequence.