Let us be grateful to Adam: he cut us out of the blessing of idleness and won for us the curse of labor.

One day man by the slow processes of evolution shall develop into something really fine and high - some billions of years hence, say.

Nothing seems to please a fly so much as to be taken for a currant; and if it can be baked in a cake and palmed off on the unwary, it dies happy.

Books are the liberated spirits of men.

Public opinion is held in reverence. It settles everything. Some think it is the voice of God.

Human Beings are the only animals that blush, or need to.

I don't know of a single foreign product that enters this country untaxed, except the answer to prayer.