Vote: The only commodity that is peddleable without a license.

In Boston they ask, how much does he know? In New York, how much is he worth? In Philadelphia, who were his parents?

The critic's symbol should be the tumble-bug: he deposits his egg in somebody else's dung, otherwise he could not hatch it.

Our heroes are men who do things which we recognize, with regret, and sometimes with a secret shame, that we cannot do.

In our day we don't allow a hundred and thirty years to elapse between glimpses of a marvel. If somebody should discover a creek in the county next to the one that the North Pole is in, Europe and America would start fifteen costly expeditions thither; one to explore the creek, and the other fourteen to hunt for each other.

My kind of loyalty was loyalty to one's country, not to its institutions or its office-holders.

A lie can make it half way around the world before the truth has time to put its boots on.