It makes one hope and believe that a day will come when, in the eye of the law, literary property will be as sacred as whiskey, or any other of the necessaries of life. It grieves me to think how far more profound and reverent a respect the law would have for literature if a body could only get drunk on it.

We are called the nation of inventors. And we are. We could still claim that title and wear its loftiest honors if we had stopped with the first thing we ever invented, which was human liberty.

Tis Better to Sit there and LOOK the fool, than to open your mouth and prove it.

Enthusiasm is caught, not taught.

The secret of making progress is to get started.

Humor is tragedy plus time.

Thunder is good, thunder is impressive; but it is lightning that does the work.