Every citizen of the republic ought to consider himself an unofficial policeman, and keep unsalaried watch and ward over the laws and their execution.

It is better to be a young June-bug than an old bird of paradise.

Additional problems are the offspring of poor solutions.

We take a natural interest in novelties, but it is against nature to take an interest in familiar things.

Apparently one of the most uncertain things in the world is the funeral of a religion.

Except a person be part coward, it is not a compliment to say he is brave.

I am personally acquainted with hundreds of journalists, and the opinion of the majority of them would not be worth tuppence in private, but when they speak in print it is the newspaper that is talking (the pygmy scribe is not visible) and then their utterances shake the community like the thunders of prophecy.