We Americans... bear the ark of liberties of the world.

The old saw says - 'Let a sleeping dog lie.' Experience knows better; experience says, If you want to convince do it yourself.

[N]o country can be well governed unless its citizens as a body keep religiously before their minds that they are the guardians of the law and that the law officers are only the machinery for its execution, nothing more.

On with the dance, let the joy be unconfined.

I like a good story well told. That is the reason I am sometimes forced to tell them myself.

There are things which some people never attempt during their whole lives, but one of these is not poetry. Poetry attacks all human beings sooner or later, and, like the measles, is mild or violent according to the age of the sufferer.

Creed and opinion change with time, and their symbols perish; but Literature and its temples are sacred to all creeds and inviolate.