Let us not be too particular; it is better to have old secondhand diamonds than none at all.

Every citizen of the republic ought to consider himself an unofficial policeman, and keep unsalaried watch and ward over the laws and their execution.

Reality can be beaten with enough imagination.

A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.

Every improvement that is put upon the real estate is the result of an idea in somebody's head. The skyscraper is another idea; the railroad is another; the telephone and all those things are merely symbols which represent ideas. An andiron, a wash-tub, is the result of an idea that did not exist before.

Wilson stopped and stood silent. Inattention dies a quick and sure death when a speaker does that.

It consists mainly of the storm of thoughts that is forever blowing through one's head.