I have a higher and grander standard of principle than George Washington. He could not lie; I can, but I won't.

Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.

If Christ were here now there is one thing he would not be — a Christian.

It is hopeless for the occasional visitor to try to keep up with Chicago-she outgrows his prophecies faster than he can make them. She is always a novelty; for she is never the Chicago you saw when you passed through the last time.

It ain't those parts of the Bible that I can't understand that bother me, it is the parts that I do understand.

I will remark in the way of general information, that in California, that land of felicitous nomenclature, the literary name of this sort of stuff is "hogwash"

I'm in favor of progress; it's change I don't like.