Congress: America's only true criminal class.

History never repeats itself; at best it sometimes rhymes.

There are laws to protect the freedom of the press's speech, but none that are worth anything to protect the people from the press

Children are natural mimics who act like their parents despite every effort to teach them good manners.

On with dance, let joy be unconfined, is my motto; whether there's any dance to dance or any joy to unconfined.

What a man sees in the human race is merely himself in the deep and honest privacy of his own heart. Byron despised the race because he despised himself. I feel as Byron did, and for the same reason.

The newspaper that obstructs the law on a trivial pretext, for money's sake, is a dangerous enemy to the public weal. That awful power, the public opinion of a nation, is created in America by a horde of ignorant, self-complacent simpletons who failed at ditching and shoemaking and fetched up in journalism on their way to the poorhouse.