A tax is a fine for doing well, a fine is a tax for doing wrong.

An American has not seen the United States until he has seen Mardi-Gras in New Orleans.

Well - Patriotism has its laws. And it also is a perfectly definite one, there are not vaguenesses about it. It commands that the brother over the border shall be sharply watched and brought to book every time he does us a hurt or offends us with an insult.

Training- training is everything; training is all there is to a person. We speak of nature; it is folly; there is no such thing as nature; what we call by that misleading name is merely heredity and training. We have no thoughts of our own, no opinions of our own; they are transmitted to us, trained into us.

Drop this mean and sordid and selfish devotion to the saving of your shabby little souls, and hunt up something to do that's got some dignity to it! Risk your souls! Risk them in good causes; then if you lose them, why should you care? Reform!

Giving up smoking is the easiest thing in the world. I know because I've done it thousands of times.

The partitions of the houses were so thin we could hear the women occupants of adjoining rooms changing their minds.