The human race is a race of cowards; and I am not only marching in that procession but carrying a banner.

If I were going to construct a God I would furnish him with some ways and qualities and characteristics which the Present One lacks... He would spend some of His eternities in trying to forgive Himself for making man unhappy when He could have made him happy with the same effort and He would spend the rest of them in studying astronomy.

It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly native criminal class except Congress.

Make your mark in New York and you are a made man.

Ideally a book would have no order to it, and the reader would have to discover his own.

A good memory and a tongue tied in the middle is a combination which gives immortality to conversation.

A man who chooses not to read is just as ignorant as a man who cannot read.