In love, you pay as you leave.

Trial by jury is the palladium of our liberties. I do not know what a palladium is, but I am sure it is a good thing!

If you don't read the newspaper, you're uninformed. If you read the newspaper, you're mis-informed.

...Man is a marvelous curiosity. When he is at his very very best he is a sort of low grade nickel-plated angel; at his worst he is unspeakable, unimaginable; and first and last and all the time he is a sarcasm. Yet he blandly and in all sincerity calls himself the 'noblest work of God.'

Those who say truth is stranger than fiction have wasted their time on poorly written fiction.

Eight grown Americans out of ten dread the coming of the Fourth, with its pandemonium and its perils, and they rejoice when it is gone-if still alive.

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.