What are the proper proportions of a maxim? A minimum of sound to a maximum of sense.

Have a place for everything and keep the thing somewhere else. This is not advice, it is merely custom.

Baseball is the very symbol, the outward and visible expression of the drive and push and rush and struggle of the raging, tearing, booming nineteenth century.

There ain't anything that is so interesting to look at as a place that a book has talked about.

Only a government that is rich and safe can afford to be a democracy, for democracy is the most expensive and nefarious kind of government ever heard of on earth

The choir always tittered and whispered all through the service. There was once a church choir that was not ill-bred, but I have forgotten where it was.

Civilization is a limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities.