Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.

I was exceedingly delighted with the waltz, and also with the polka. These differ in name, but there the difference ceases

The humorist who invented trial by jury played a colossal practical joke upon the world, but since we have the system we ought to try and respect it. A thing which is not thoroughly easy to do, when we reflect that by command of the law a criminal juror must be an intellectual vacuum, attached to a melting heart and perfectly macaronian bowels of compassion.

Wagner has some great moments, but a lot of miserable half hours.

Demagogue--a vessel containing beer and other liquids.

A man has no business to be depressed by a disappointment, anyway; he ought to make up his mind to get even.

More than two hundred death penalties are gone from the law books, but the [biblical] texts that authorised them remain.