Baseball is the very symbol, the outward and visible expression of the drive and push and rush and struggle of the raging, tearing, booming nineteenth century.

There are too many stars in some places and not enough in others.

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

If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.

God, so atrocious in the Old Testament, so attractive in the New--the Jekyl and Hyde of sacred romance.

You know that kind of quiver that trembles around through you when you are seeing something so strange and enchanting and wonderful that it is just a fearful joy to be alive and look at it; and you know how you gaze, and your lips turn dry and your breath comes short, but you wouldn't be anywhere but there, not for the world.

The way it is now, the asylums can hold the sane people, but if we tried to shut up the insane we should run out of building materials.