I am an anti-imperialist. I am opposed to having the eagle put its talons on any other land.

Never knew before what eternity was made for. It is to give some of us a chance to learn German.

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.

I persuaded him to throw the dirk away; and it was as easy as persuading a child to give up some bright fresh new way of killing itself.

Some authorities hold that the young ought not to lie at all. That, of course, is putting it rather stronger than necessary; still, while I cannot go quite so far as that, I do maintain, and I believe I am right, that the young ought to be temperate in the use of this great art until practice and experience shall give them that confidence, elegance and precision which alone can make the accomplishment graceful and profitable.

One of the most striking differences between a cat and a lie is that a cat has only nine lives.

Don't tell fish stories where the people know you; but particularly, don't tell them where they know the fish.