The radical of one century is the conservative of the next. The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out, the conservative adopt.

When I'm playful I use the meridians of longitude and parallels of latitude for a seine, and drag the Atlantic Ocean for whales. I scratch my head with the lightning and purr myself to sleep with the thunder.

The primary rule of business success is loyalty to your employer. That's all right as a theory. What is the matter with loyalty to yourself?

I have a higher and grander standard of principle than George Washington. He could not lie; I can, but I won't.

A woman springs a sudden reproach upon you which provokes a hot retort, and then she will presently ask you to apologize.

Talking of patriotism, what humbug it is; it is a word which always commemorates a robbery.

A myriad of men are born; they labor and sweat and struggle; ...they squabble and scold and fight; they scramble for little mean advantages over each other; age creeps upon them; infirmities follow; ...those they love are taken from them, and the joy of life is turned to aching grief. It comes at last--the only unpoisoned gift earth ever had for them--and they vanish from a world where they were of no consequence, ...a world which will lament them a day and forget them forever.