A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way.

Noise proves nothing. Often a hen who has merely laid an egg cackles as if she laid an asteroid.

What work I have done I have done because it has been play. If it had been work I shouldn't have done it. . . . The work that is really a man's own work is play and not work at all. . . . When we talk about the great workers of the world we really mean the great players of the world.

God was left out of the Constitution but was furnished a front seat on the coins of the country.

Never be haughty to the humble, never be humble to the haughty.

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.

The Koran does not permit Mohammedans to drink. Their natural instincts do not permit them to be moral. They say the Sultan has eight hundred wives. This almost amounts to bigamy.