All I care to know about a man is that he is a human being... he can't be any worse.

Does the human being reason? No; he thinks, muses, reflects, but does not reason...that is, in the two things which are the peculiar domain of the heart, not the mind, politics and religion. He doesn't want to know the other side. He wants arguments and statistics for his own side, and nothing more.

One of the brightest gems in the New England weather is the dazzling uncertainty of it.

If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and man.

The man who sets out to carry a cat by its tail learns something that will always be useful and which never will grow dim or doubtful.

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

A newspaper is not just for reporting the news as it is, but to make people mad enough to do something about it.