The machine has several virtues... One may lean back in his chair and work it. It piles an awful stack of words on one page. It don't muss things or scatter ink blots around.

What ought to be done to the man who invented the celebrating of anniversaries? Mere killing would be too light.

We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it - and stop there.

Great things can happen when you don't care who gets the credit.

Greece is a bleak, unsmiling desert, without agriculture, manufactures or commerce, apparently. What supports its poverty-stricken people or its Government, is a mystery.

The minute we get reconciled to a person, how willing we are to throw aside little needless punctilios and pronounce his name right.

It is a worthy thing to fight for one's freedom; it is another sight finer to fight for another man's.