But in this country we have one great privilege which they don't have in other countries. When a thing gets to be absolutely unbearable the people can rise up and throw it off. That's the finest asset we've got - the ballot box.

The exquisitely bad is as satisfying to the soul as the exquisitely good. Only the mediocre is unendurable.

Ignorant people think it is the noise which fighting cats make that is so aggravating, but it ain't so; it is the sickening grammar that they use.

Who are we to create a heaven and hell for ourselves, excluding animals and plants in the bargain, just because we have the power to rationalize?

A wise man does not waste so good a commodity as lying for naught.

There is no character, howsoever good and fine, but it can be destroyed by ridicule, howsoever poor and witless.

I think the Cincinnati Enquirer must be edited by children.