The good Lord didn't create anything without a purpose, but the fly comes close.

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

The newspaper that obstructs the law on a trivial pretext, for money's sake, is a dangerous enemy to the public weal. That awful power, the public opinion of a nation, is created in America by a horde of ignorant, self-complacent simpletons who failed at ditching and shoemaking and fetched up in journalism on their way to the poorhouse.

Patriot: the person who can holler the loudest without knowing what he is hollering about.

Therein lies the defect of revenge: it's all in the anticipation; the thing itself is a pain, not a pleasure; at least the pain is the biggest end of it.

I am opposed to millionaires, but it would be dangerous to offer me the position.

Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.