I saw a startling sight today, a politician with his hands in his own pockets.

When whole races and peoples conspire to propagate gigantic mute lies in the interest of tyrannies and shams, why should we care anything about the trifling lies told by individuals?

Irreverence is the champion of liberty and its only sure defense.

An average English word is four letters and a half. By hard, honest labor I've dug all the large words out of my vocabulary and shaved it down till the average is three and a half... I never write metropolis for seven cents, because I can get the same money for city. I never write policeman, because I can get the same price for cop.... I never write valetudinarian at all, for not even hunger and wretchedness can humble me to the point where I will do a word like that for seven cents; I wouldn't do it for fifteen.

The slowness of one section of the world about adopting the valuable ideas of another section of it is a curious thing and unaccountable.

Two days overdue, THE WORLD'S WORK has not reached me. Pray make a note of this. I would rather not have to resort to violence.

...mastery of the art and spirit of the Germanic language enables a man to travel all day in one sentence without changing cars.