More than once I have been humiliated by my resemblance to God the father; He is always longing for the love of His children and trying to get it on the cheapest and laziest terms He can invent.

When red-headed people are above a certain social grade their hair is auburn.

There is not a single celebrated Southern name in any of the departments of human industry except those of war, assassination, lynching, murder, the duel, repudiation, & massacre.

College is a place where a professor's lecture notes go straight to the students' lecture notes, without passing through the brains of either.

Newport, Rhode Island, that breeding place-that stud farm, so to speak-of aristocracy; aristocracy of the American type.

When congress is in session no American is safe.

The very ink with which history is written is merely fluid prejudice.