There are only two forces that can carry light to all the corners of the globe... the sun in the heavens and the Associated Press down here.

You can't throw too much style into a miracle.

Wherefore being all of one mind, we do highly resolve that government of the grafted by the grafter for the grafter shall not perish from the earth.

The modern patriotism, the true patriotism, the only rational patriotism is loyalty to the Nation all the time, loyalty to the Government when it deserves it.

Now and then we had a hope that if we lived and were good, God would permit us to be pirates.

Humor must not professedly teach and it must not professedly preach, but it must do both if it would live forever.

A man who is not born with the novel-writing gift has a troublesome time of it when he tries to build a novel. I know this from experience. He has no clear idea of his story; in fact he has no story. He merely has some people in his mind, and an incident or two, also a locality, and he trusts he can plunge those people into those incidents with interesting results.