Lord save us all from a hope tree that has lost the faculty of putting out blossoms.

History never repeats itself; at best it sometimes rhymes.

Such is professional jealousy; a scientist will never show any kindness for a theory which he did not start himself.

In Marseilles they make half the toilet soap we consume in America, but the Marseillaise only have a vague theoretical idea of its use, which they have obtained from books of travel.

Sane and intelligent human beings are like all other human beings, and carefully and cautiously and diligently conceal their private real opinions from the world and give out fictitious ones in their stead for general consumption.

It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly native criminal class except Congress.

Our Bible reveals to us the character of our god with minute and remorseless exactness... It is perhaps the most damnatory biography that exists in print anywhere. It makes Nero an angel of light and leading by contrast.