Habit is habit, and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed down-stairs one step at a time.

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.

If the bubble reputation can be obtained only at the cannon's mouth, I am willing to go there for it, provided the cannon is empty. If it is loaded my immortal and inflexible purpose is to get over the fence and go home. My invariable practice in war has been to bring out of every fight two-thirds more men than when I went in. This seems to me Napoleonic in its grandeur.

When an honest writer discovers an imposition it is his simple duty to strip it bare and hurl it down from its place of honor, no matter who suffers by it; any other course would render him unworthy of the public confidence.

For England must not fall: it would mean an inundation of Russian & German political degradations which would envelop the globe & steep it in a sort of Middle-Age night & slaverly which would last till Christ comes again - which I hope he will not do; he made trouble enough before.

That is just the way with some people. They get down on a thing when they don’t know nothing about it.

A gentleman is a man who can play the banjo, but doesn't.