To get the right word in the right place is a rare achievement.

We Americans are the most lavish and showiest and most luxury loving people on the earth; and at our masthead we fly one true and honest symbol, the gaudiest flag the world has ever seen.

Our opinions do not really blossom into fruition until we have expressed them to someone else.

One must travel, to learn.

Let me make the superstitions of a nation and I care not who makes its laws or its songs either.

You can't no more teach what you ain't learned than you can come from where you ain't been.

The devil's aversion to holy water is a light matter compared with a despots dread of a newspaper that laughs.