Literature is well enough, as a time-passer, and for the improvement and general elevation and purification of mankind, but it has no practical value.

He is now rising from affluence to poverty.

There are laws to protect the freedom of the press's speech, but none that are worth anything to protect the people from the press

There is not a single human characteristic that can be safely labeled as American.

What do we call love, hate, charity, revenge, humanity, forgiveness? Different results of the master impulse, the necessity of securing one's self-approval.

When I was younger I could remember anything, whether it happened or not.

....try the mustard, - a man can't know what turnips are in perfection without mustard.