Only kings, presidents, editors, and people with tapeworms have the right to use the editorial 'we.'

If we had less statemanship we could get along with fewer battleships.

Many of the cemeteries are beautiful, and are kept in perfect order. When one goes from the levee or the business streets [of New Orleans] to it, to a cemetery, he observes to himself that if those people down there would live as neatly while they are alive as they do after they are dead, they would find many advantages in it; and besides, their quarter would be the wonder and admiration of the business world.

If Christ were here now there is one thing he would not be — a Christian.

Cold! If the thermometer had been an inch longer we'd all have frozen to death!

Your road is everything that a road ought to be...and yet you will not stay in it half a mile, for the reason that little, seductive, mysterious roads are always branching out from it on either hand, and as these curve sharply also and hide what is beyond, you cannot resist the temptation to desert your own chosen path and explore them.

The man who is ostentatious of his modesty is twin to the statue that wears a fig-leaf.