All publishers are Columbuses. The successful author is their America. The reflection that they-like Columbus-didn't discover what they expected to discover, and didn't discover what they started out to discover, doesn't trouble them. All they remember is that they discovered America; they forget that they started out to discover some patch or corner of India.

We are called the nation of inventors. And we are. We could still claim that title and wear its loftiest honors if we had stopped with the first thing we ever invented, which was human liberty.

To lodge all power in one party and keep it there is to insure bad government and the sure and gradual deterioration of the public morals.

A man is accepted into a church for what he believes and he is turned out for what he knows.

Learning softeneth the heart and breedeth gentleness and charity.

No real gentleman will tell the naked truth in the presence of ladies.

I couldn't bear to think about it; and yet, somehow, I couldn't think about nothing else.