In religion and politics, people's belief's and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second hand, and without examination

I don't see any use in having a uniform and arbitrary way of spelling words. We might as well make all clothes alike and cook all dishes alike. Sameness is tiresome; variety is pleasing.

The older we grow the greater becomes our wonder at how much ignorance one can contain without bursting one's clothes.

Slang in a woman's mouth is not obscene, it only sounds so.

It is hopeless for the occasional visitor to try to keep up with Chicago-she outgrows his prophecies faster than he can make them. She is always a novelty; for she is never the Chicago you saw when you passed through the last time.

The radical of one century is the conservative of the next.

In America-as elsewhere-free speech is confined to the dead.