Is it, perhaps, possible that there are two kinds of Civilization-one for home consumption and one for the heathen market?

How often we recall with regret that Napoleon once shot at a magazine editor and missed him and killed a publisher. But we remember with charity that his intentions were good.

It is better to support schools than jails.

The man who sets out to carry a cat by its tail learns something that will always be useful and which never will grow dim or doubtful.

Too much of anything is bad, but too much good whiskey is barely enough.

Such is professional jealousy; a scientist will never show any kindness for a theory which he did not start himself.

I was an arden Hayes man, but that was natural, for I was pretty young at the time, I have since convinced myself that the political opinioins of a nation are of next to no value, in any case, but that what little rag of value they posess is to be found among the old, rather than among the young.