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

It is no use to keep private information which you can't show off.

The fact is, the king was a good deal more than a king, he was a man; and when a man is a man, you can't knock it out of him.

Nature knows no indecencies; man invents them.

The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug.

Many of the cemeteries are beautiful, and are kept in perfect order. When one goes from the levee or the business streets [of New Orleans] to it, to a cemetery, he observes to himself that if those people down there would live as neatly while they are alive as they do after they are dead, they would find many advantages in it; and besides, their quarter would be the wonder and admiration of the business world.

I cannot see the short, white curls Upon the forehead of an Ox, But what I see them dripping with That poor thing's blood, and hear the ax; When I see calves and lambs, I see Them led to death; I see no bird Or rabbit cross the open field But what a sudden shot is heard; A shout that tells me men aim true, For death or wound, doth chill me through. W.H. Davies I have been studying the traits and dispositions of the "lower animals" (so called) and contrasting them with the traits and dispositions of man. I find the result humiliating to me.