Plain question and plain answer make the shortest road out of most perplexities.

I thoroughly disapprove of duels. If a man should challenge me, I would take him kindly and forgivingly by the hand and lead him to a quiet place and kill him.

Take your mind out every now and then and dance on it. It is getting all caked up.

Our Congresses consist of Christians. In their private life they are true to every obligation of honor; yet in every session they violate them all, and do it without shame. Because honor to party is above honor to themselves.

The trouble with most of us is that we know too much that ain't so.

Perfect grammar - persistent, continuous, sustained - is the fourth dimension, so to speak; many have sought it, but none has found it.

The banging and slamming and booming and crashing were something beyond belief. [On Lohengrin]