If we would learn what the human race really is at bottom, we need only observe it in election times.

The community is eminently Portuguese - that is to say, it is slow, poor, shiftless, sleepy, and lazy.

You can't break a bad habit by throwing it out the window. You've got to walk it slowly down the stairs.

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

I have attended operas, whenever I could not help it, for fourteen years now; I am sure I know of no agony comparable to the listening to an unfamiliar opera.

The only difference between a tax man and a taxidermist is that the taxidermist leaves the skin.

Going to law is losing a cow for the sake of a cat.