The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.

His head was an hour-glass; it could stow an idea, but it had to do it a grain at a time, not the whole idea at once.

New Orleans food is as delicious as the less criminal forms of sin.

Why waste your money looking up your family tree? Just go into politics and your opponent will do it for you.

There is no salvation for us but to adopt Civilization and lift ourselves down to its level.

[N]o country can be well governed unless its citizens as a body keep religiously before their minds that they are the guardians of the law and that the law officers are only the machinery for its execution, nothing more.

I am not an American. I am the American.