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.

You can't keep a juvenile moral institution alive on two displays of its sash per year.

Politicians, old buildings, and prostitutes become respectable with age.

Explaining humor is a lot like dissecting a frog, you learn a lot in the process, but in the end you kill it.

We do not get ice-cream every where, and so, when we do, we are apt to dissipate to excess.

The rule is perfect: in all matters of opinion our adversaries are insane.

That is just the way with some people. They get down on a thing when they don’t know nothing about it.