The average woman would rather have beauty than brains, because the average man can see better than he can think.

Heaven knows insanity was disreputable enough, long ago; but now that the lawyers have got to cutting every gallows rope and picking every prison lock with it, it is become a sneaking villainy that ought to hang and keep on hanging its sudden possessors until evil-doers should conclude that the safest plan was to never claim to have it until they came by it legitimately. The very calibre of the people the lawyers most frequently try to save by the insanity subterfuge ought to laugh the plea out of the courts, one would think.

Life does not consist mainly - or even largely - of facts and happenings.

Balloon: Thing to take meteroric observations and commit suicide with.

More than two hundred death penalties are gone from the law books, but the [biblical] texts that authorised them remain.

It is at our mother's knee that we acquire our noblest and truest and highest ideals.

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