Heaven goes by favor. If it went by merit, you would stay out and your dog would go in.

By and by when each nation has 20,000 battleships and 5,000,000 soldiers we shall all be safe and the wisdom of statesmanship will stand confirmed.

To write without pay until somebody offers pay. If nobody offers pay within three years, the candidate may look upon this circumstance with the most implicit confidence as the sign that sawing wood is what he was intended for.

No man's life, liberty, or property are safe while the legislature is in session.

My idea of our civilization is that it is a shoddy, poor thing and full of cruelties, vanities, arrogances, meannesses and hypocrisies.

Go to Heaven for the climate, Hell for the company.

It is a wise child that knows its own father, and an unusual one that unreservedly approves of him.