Principles aren't of much account anyway, except at election time. After that you hang them up to let them season.

Between believing a thing and thinking you KNOW is only a small step and quickly taken.

I am personally acquainted with hundreds of journalists, and the opinion of the majority of them would not be worth tuppence in private, but when they speak in print it is the newspaper that is talking (the pygmy scribe is not visible) and then their utterances shake the community like the thunders of prophecy.

I was educated once - it took me years to get over it.

When the time comes that a man has had his dinner, then the true man comes to the surface

We are chameleons, and our partialities and prejudices change place with an easy and blesses facility, and we are soon wonted to the change and happy in it.

It is sound judgment to put on a bold face and play your hand for a hundred times what it is worth; forty-nine times out of fifty nobody dares to call it, and you roll in the chips.