The motto stated a lie. If this nation has ever trusted in God, that time has gone by; for nearly half a century almost its entire trust has been in the Republican party and the dollar--mainly the dollar. I recognize that I am only making an assertion and furnishing no proof; I am sorry, but this is a habit of mine; sorry also that I am not alone in it; everybody seems to have this disease.

O Lord our God, help us to tear their soldiers to bloody shreds with our shells; help us to cover their smiling fields with the pale forms of their patriot dead; help us to drown the thunder of the guns with the shrieks of their wounded, writhing in pain.

The Moral Sense teaches us what is right, and how to avoid it-when unpopular.

Humor is man's greatest blessing.

A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.

I saw a startling sight today, a politician with his hands in his own pockets.

I am pushing sixty. That is enough exercise for me.