There is no such thing as material covetousness. All covetousness is spiritual. ...Any so-called material thing that you want is merely a symbol: you want it not for itself, but because it will content your spirit for the moment.

Demagogue--a vessel containing beer and other liquids.

I cannot call to mind a single instance where I have ever been irreverent, except toward the things which were sacred to other people.

'Don't you worry, and don't you hurry.' I know that phrase by heart, and if all other music should perish out of the world it would still sing to me.

I was an arden Hayes man, but that was natural, for I was pretty young at the time, I have since convinced myself that the political opinioins of a nation are of next to no value, in any case, but that what little rag of value they posess is to be found among the old, rather than among the young.

In Boston they ask, how much does he know? In New York, how much is he worth? In Philadelphia, who were his parents?

I would rather go to bed with Lillian Russell stark naked than Ulysses S Grant in full military regalia.