Loyalty to the country always. Loyalty to the government when it deserves it.

Next you'd see a raft sliding by, away off yonder, and maybe a galoot on it chopping. . . you'd see the ax flash and come down-you don't hear nothing; you see the ax go up again, and by the time it's above the man's head then you hear the k'chunk!-it had took all that time to come over the water.

Do the right thing. It will gratify some people and astonish the rest.

Plain question and plain answer make the shortest road out of most perplexities.

The average woman would rather have beauty than brains, because the average man can see better than he can think.

Why should anybody want to save the human race, or damn it either? Does God want its society? Does Satan?

But it was ever thus, all through my life: whenever I have diverged from custom and principle and uttered a truth, the rule has been that the hearer hadn't strength of mind enough to believe it.