The political and commercial morals of the United States are not merely food for laughter, they are an entire banquet.

But we love the Old Travelers. We love to hear them prate and drivel and lie.

When the doctrine of allegiance to party can utterly up-end a man's moral constitution and make a temporary fool of him besides, what excuse are you going to offer for preaching it, teaching it, extending it, perpetuating it? Shall you say, the best good of the country demands allegiance to party? Shall you also say it demands that a man kick his truth and his conscience into the gutter, and become a mouthing lunatic, besides?

Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.

Damn the subjunctive. It brings all our writers to shame.

I found out that I was a Christian for revenue only and I could not bear the thought of that, it was so ignoble.

Balloon: Thing to take meteroric observations and commit suicide with.