Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please.

In this age of inventive wonders all men have come to believe that in some genius' brain sleeps the solution of the grand problem of aerial navigation-and along with that belief is the hope that that genius will reveal his miracle before they die, and likewise a dread that he will poke off somewhere and die himself before he finds out that he has such a wonder lying dormant in his brain. We all know the air can be navigated-therefore, hurry up your sails and bladders-satisfy us-let us have peace.

Human beings seem to be a poor invention. If they are the noblest works of God where is the ignoblest?

Repartee is something we think of twenty-four hours too late.

It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly native criminal class except Congress.

Why should anybody want to save the human race, or damn it either? Does God want its society? Does Satan?

Human Beings are the only animals that blush, or need to.