I've come loaded with statistics, for I've noticed that a man can't prove anything without statistics. No man can.

A public library is the most enduring of memorials, the trustiest monument for the preservation of an event or a name or an affection; for it, and it only, is respected by wars and revolutions, and survives them.

All I say is, kings is kings, and you got to make allowances. Take them all around, they're a mighty ornery lot. It's the way they're raised.

The newspaper that obstructs the law on a trivial pretext, for money's sake, is a dangerous enemy to the public weal. That awful power, the public opinion of a nation, is created in America by a horde of ignorant, self-complacent simpletons who failed at ditching and shoemaking and fetched up in journalism on their way to the poorhouse.

History never repeats itself; at best it sometimes rhymes.

It takes me a long time to lose my temper, but once lost I could not find it with a dog.

Intellectual food is like any other; it is pleasanter and more beneficial to take it with a spoon than a shovel.