Even popularity can be overdone. In Rome, along at first, you are full of regrets that Michelangelo died; but by and by, you only regret that you didn't see him do it.

When a man's dog turns against hime, it is time for his wife to pack her trunk and go home to mamma.

A man accustomed to American food and American domestic cookery would not starve to death suddenly in Europe, but I think he would gradually waste away, and eventually die.

Humor must not professedly teach and it must not professedly preach, but it must do both if it would live forever.

It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.

The highest pleasure to be got out of freedom, and having nothing to do, is labor.

To lodge all power in one party and keep it there is to insure bad government and the sure and gradual deterioration of the public morals.