They do say that when a man starts down hill everybody is ready to help him with a kick, and I suppose it is so.

The only people who should use the possessive 'we' are kings, newspaper editors, and persons with tapeworms.

Whatever a man's age, he can reduce it several years by putting a bright-colored flower in his button-hole.

Kindness is a language herd by deaf men and felt by blind men.

The silent colossal National Lie that is the support and confederate of all the tyrannies and shams and inequalities and unfairnesses that afflict the peoples — that is the one to throw bricks and sermons at.

I don't mind what the opposition say of me so long as they don't tell the truth about me. But when they descend to telling the truth about me I consider that this is taking an unfair advantage.

The Indian may seem poor to we rich Westerners but in matters of the spirit it is we who are the paupers and they who are millionaires.