Those people.... early stricken of God, intellectually - the departmental interpreters of the laws in Washington... can always be depended on to take any reasonably good law and interpret the common sense all out of it.

We all do no end of feeling, and we mistake it for thinking.

When a man stands on the verge of seventy-two you know perfectly well that he never reached that place without knowing what this life is - heartbreaking bereavement.

Time and tide wait for no man. A pompous and self-satisfied proverb, and was true for a billion years; but in our day of electric wires and water-ballast we turn it around: Man waits not for time nor tide.

Don't look at the world with your hands in your pockets. To write about it you have to reach out and touch it.

The Moral Sense teaches us what is right, and how to avoid it-when unpopular.

Dying man couldn't make up his mind which place to go to-both have their advantages, heaven for the climate, hell for the company!