Whiskey is carried into committee rooms in demijohns and carried out in demagogues.

I cannot call to mind a single instance where I have ever been irreverent, except toward the things which were sacred to other people.

[N]o country can be well governed unless its citizens as a body keep religiously before their minds that they are the guardians of the law and that the law officers are only the machinery for its execution, nothing more.

Those who do not read have no advantage over those who cannot read.

The common eye sees only the outside of things, and judges by that, but the seeing eye pierces through and reads the heart and the soul, finding there capacities which the outside didn't indicate or promise, and which the other kind of eye couldn't detect.

You perceive I generalize with intrepidity from single instances. It is the tourist's custom.

Cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.