isn't so astonishing, the number of things that I can remember, as the number of things I can remember that aren't so.

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

Your road is everything that a road ought to be...and yet you will not stay in it half a mile, for the reason that little, seductive, mysterious roads are always branching out from it on either hand, and as these curve sharply also and hide what is beyond, you cannot resist the temptation to desert your own chosen path and explore them.

When politics enter into municipal government, nothing resulting therefrom in the way of crimes and infamies is then incredible. It actually enables one to accept and believe the impossible.

The very "marks" on the bottom of a piece of rare crockery are able to throw me into a gibbering ecstasy.

One holds a bottle of red wine by the neck, a woman by the waist, and a bottle of champagne by the derriere.

Never argue with people who buy ink by the gallon.