The human race consists of the damned and the ought-to-be damned.

No throne exists that has a right to exist, and no symbol of it, flying from any flagstaff, is righteously entitled to wear any device but the skull and crossbones of that kindred industry which differs from royalty only businesswise-merely as retail differs from wholesale.

How stunning are the changes which age makes in a man while he sleeps!

I can't do no literary work for the rest of this year because I'm meditating another lawsuit and looking around for a defendant.

To be busy is man's only happiness.

God pours out love upon all with a lavish hand -- but He reserves vengeance for His very own.

The low level which commercial morality has reached in America is deplorable. We have humble God fearing Christian men among us who will stoop to do things for a million dollars that they ought not to be willing to do for less than 2 millions.