It is easy to see that the inventor of the heaven did not originate the idea, but copied it from the show-ceremonies of some sorry little sovereign State up in the back settlements of the Orient somewhere.

America cannot have an empire abroad and a Republic at home.

The New York papers have long known that no large question is ever really settled until I have been consulted.

When you catch an adjective, kill it - perhaps the best possible advice for budding writers.

There are no grades of vanity; there are only grades of ability in concealing it.

When we do not know a person - and also when we do - we have to judge his size by the size and nature of his achievements, as compared with the achievements of others in his special line of business - there is no other way.

No temperance society which is well officered and which has the real good of our fellow-men in view, will ever get drunk save in the seclusion of its temperance hall.