Humorists of the 'mere' sort cannot survive. Humor is only a fragrance, a decoration.

There is no other life; life itself is only a vision and a dream for nothing exists but space and you. If there was an all-powerful God, he would have made all good, and no bad.

The English are mentioned in the Bible; Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth.

America cannot have an empire abroad and a Republic at home.

One of my theories is that the hearts of men are about alike, no matter what their skin color.

In America, we hurry-which is well; but when the day's work is done, we go on thinking of losses and gains, we plan for the morrow, we even carry our business cares to bed with us...we burn up our energies with these excitements, and either die early or drop into a lean and mean old age at a time of life which they call a man's prime in Europe...What a robust people, what a nation of thinkers we might be, if we would only lay ourselves on the shelf occasionally and renew our edges!

A man's first duty is to his own conscience and honor; the party and country come second to that, and never first.