A newspaper is not just for reporting the news as it is, but to make people mad enough to do something about it.

The Autocrat of Russia possesses more power than any other man in the earth; but he cannot stop a sneeze.

Custom is, to think a handsome thing in private but tame it down in the utterance.

If the desire to kill and the opportunity to kill always came together, who would escape hanging? Framed in a more positive light, this tells us also that if we wish to accomplish a particular thing then we need to increase our level of desire for that thing and to create or seek out the opportunities and right environment for it to happen without fail.

It is best to read the weather forecast before praying for rain.

I simply can´t resist a cat, particularly a purring one. They are the cleanest, cunningest, and most intelligent things I know, outside of the girl you love, of course.

Baseball is the very symbol, the outward and visible expression of the drive and push and rush and struggle of the raging, tearing, booming nineteenth century.