A monarch, when good, is entitled to the consideration which we accord to a pirate who keeps Sunday School between crimes; when bad, he is entitled to none at all.
God, so atrocious in the Old Testament, so attractive in the New--the Jekyl and Hyde of sacred romance.
Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please.
I respect a man who knows how to spell a word more than one way.
Repartee is something we think of twenty-four hours too late.
Fortune knocks at every man's door once in a life, but in a good many cases the man is in a neighboring saloon and does not hear her.