What marriage is to morality, a properly conducted licensed liquor traffic is to sobriety.

There have been innumerable Temporary Seekers after the Truth-have you ever heard of a permanent one?

You can't throw too much style into a miracle.

A joke, even if it be a lame one, is nowhere so keenly relished or quickly applauded as in a murder trial.

I could have become a soldier if I had waited; I knew more about retreating than the man who invented retreating.

We never knew an ignorant person yet but was prejudiced.

Humorists of the 'mere' sort cannot survive. Humor is only a fragrance, a decoration.