The country is the real thing, the substantial thing, the eternal thing, it is the thing to watch over and care for and be loyal to; institutions are extraneous. . . .

I am personally acquainted with hundreds of journalists, and the opinion of the majority of them would not be worth tuppence in private, but when they speak in print it is the newspaper that is talking (the pygmy scribe is not visible) and then their utterances shake the community like the thunders of prophecy.

I would rather go to bed with Lillian Russell stark naked than Ulysses S Grant in full military regalia.

Education is what you must acquire without any interference from your schooling.

A monarch, when good, is entitled to the consideration which we accord to a pirate who keeps Sunday School between crimes; when bad, he is entitled to none at all.

The only people that a bank will loan money to is the very people who don't need it.

He liked to like people, therefore people liked him.