Just because you’re taught that something’s right and everyone believes it’s right, it don’t make it right.

I am persuaded that the world has been tricked into adopting some false and most pernicious notions about consistency - and to such a degree that the average man has turned the rights and wrongs of things entirely around and is proud to be "consistent," unchanging, immovable, fossilized, where it should be his humiliation.

Literature is well enough, as a time-passer, and for the improvement and general elevation and purification of mankind, but it has no practical value.

The nation is divided, half patriots and half traitors, and no man can tell which from which.

One of my theories is that the hearts of men are about alike, no matter what their skin color.

So I became a newspaperman. I hated to do it but I couldnt find honest employment.

It usually takes me more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech.