I bring you this stately matron named Christendom, returning bedraggled, besmirched, and dishonored from pirate raids in Kiao-Chow, Manchuria, South Africa, and the Phillipines, with her soul full of meanness, her pocket full of boodle, and her mouth full of pious hypocrisies. Give her soap and a towel, but hide the looking-glass.

I am not the editor of a newspaper and shall always try to do right and be good so that God will not make me one.

Man can seldom - very, very, seldom - fight a winning fight against his training; the odds are too heavy.

We recognize that there are no trivial occurrences in life if we get the right focus on them.

I hate to hear people say this Judge will vote so and so, because he is a Democrat -- and this one so and so because he is a Republican. It is shameful. The Judges have the Constitution for their guidance; they have no right to any politics save the politics of rigid right and justice when they are sitting in judgment upon the great matters that come before them.

The person who has no opinion will seldom be wrong.

Comparison is the death of joy.