It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly native criminal class except Congress.

There are too many stars in some places and not enough in others.

A crime persevered in a thousand centuries ceases to be a crime, and becomes a virtue. This is the law of custom, and custom supersedes all other forms of law.

All you need is ignorance and confidence and the success is sure.

There are laws to protect the freedom of the press's speech, but none that are worth anything to protect the people from the press

I have been reading the morning paper. I do it every morning-knowing well that I shall find in it the usual depravities and basenesses and hypocrisies and cruelties that make up civilization, and cause me to put in the rest of the day pleading for the damnation of the human race. I cannot seem to get my prayers answered, yet I do not despair.

In a good bookroom you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in all the books through your skin, without even opening them.