When you catch an adjective, kill it.

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

He gossips habitually; he lacks the common wisdom to keep still that deadly enemy of man, his own tongue.

I will remark in the way of general information, that in California, that land of felicitous nomenclature, the literary name of this sort of stuff is "hogwash"

Don't you know that the very thing a man dreads is the thing that always happens?

If you're looking for friends when you need them...it's too late.

A street in Constantinople is a picture which one ought to see once-not oftener.