The real yellow peril: Gold.

Of the 417 commandments, only a single one of the 417 has found ministerial obedience; multiply and replenish the earth. To it sinner & saint, scholar & ignoramus, Christian & savage are alike loyal.

If we would learn what the human race really is at bottom, we need only observe it in election times.

New Orleans food is as delicious as the less criminal forms of sin.

Virtue has never been as respectable as money.

I have tried getting up early, and I have tried getting up late-and the latter agrees with me best.

It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.