Tis Better to Sit there and LOOK the fool, than to open your mouth and prove it.
I am not given to exaggeration, and when I say a thing I mean it.
...Man is a marvelous curiosity. When he is at his very very best he is a sort of low grade nickel-plated angel; at his worst he is unspeakable, unimaginable; and first and last and all the time he is a sarcasm. Yet he blandly and in all sincerity calls himself the 'noblest work of God.'
Out of the public schools comes the greatness of the nation.
The wit knows that his place is at the tail of a procession.
I will gradually drop this subject of graveyards. I have been trying all I could to get down to the sentimental part of it, but I cannot accomplish it. I think there is no genuinely sentimental part to it. It is all grotesque, ghastly, horrible.