A policeman in plain clothes is a man; in his uniform he is ten. Clothes and title are the most potent thing, the most formidable influence, in the earth. They move the human race to willing and spontaneous respect for the judge, the general, the admiral, the bishop, the ambassador, the frivolous earl, the idiot duke, the sultan, the king, the emperor. No great title is efficient without clothes to support it.

It is more trouble to make a maxim than it is to do right.

Heaven goes by favor. If it went by merit, you would stay out and your dog would go in.

Christianity will doubtless still survive in the earth ten centuries hence- stuffed and in a museum.

Senator: Person who makes laws in Washington when not doing time.

The more you explain it, the more I don't understand it.

It was a place of sin, loose women, whiskey and gambling. It was no place for a good Presbyterian, and I did not long remain one.