All emotion is involuntary when genuine.

There are laws to protect the freedom of the press's speech, but none that are worth anything to protect the people from the press

Heaven is the very last place to come to rest and don't you be afraid to bet on that!

The pitifulest thing out is a mob; that's what an army is--a mob; they don't fight with courage that's born in them, but with courage that's borrowed from their mass, and from their officers. But a mob without any MAN at the head of it is BENEATH pitifulness.

It is a mistake that there is no bath that will cure people's manners, but drowning would help.

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

An injurious truth has no merit over an injurious lie. Neither should ever be uttered. The man who speaks an injurious truth, lest his soul be not saved if he do otherwise, should reflect that that sort of a soul is not strictly worth saving.