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

Humor must not professedly teach and it must not professedly preach, but it must do both if it would live forever.

We like to read about rich people in the newspapers; the papers know it, and they do their best to keep this appetite liberally fed.

Biographies are but the clothes and buttons of the man. The biography of the man himself cannot be written.

If Christians should vote their duty to God at the polls, they would carry every election, and do it with ease. They would elect every clean candidate in the United States, and defeat every soiled one. Their prodigious power would be quickly realized and recognized, and afterward there would be no unclean candidates upon any ticket, and graft would cease.

Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.

Let us live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.