We get our morals from books. I didn't get mine from books, but I know that morals do come from books- theoretically at least.

Newport, Rhode Island, that breeding place-that stud farm, so to speak-of aristocracy; aristocracy of the American type.

To lodge all power in one party and keep it there is to insure bad government and the sure and gradual deterioration of the public morals.

A mighty porterhouse steak an inch and a half thick, hot and sputtering from the griddle; dusted with fragrant pepper; enriched with little melting bits of butter of the most impeachable freshness and genuineness; the precious juices of the meat trickling out and joining the gravy, archipelagoed with mushrooms; a township or two of tender, yellowish fat gracing an out-lying district of this ample county of beefsteak; the long white bone which divides the sirloin from the tenderloin still in its place.

The most interesting information comes from children, for they tell all they know and then stop.

A person who won't read has no advantage over one who can't read.

I have found out that there ain't no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them.