Wit and Humor - if any difference, it is in duration - lightning and electric light. Same material, apparently; but one is vivid, and can do damage - the other fools along and enjoys elaboration.

Loyalty to the country always. Loyalty to the government when it deserves it.

To go abroad has something of the same sense that death brings. I am no longer of ye-what ye say of me is now of no consequence.

We are strange beings, we seem to go free, but we go in chains - chains of training, custom, convention, association, environment - in a word, Circumstance, and against these bonds the strongest of us struggle in vain.

Principles have no real force except when one is well-fed.

Tomorrow night I appear for the first time before a Boston audience - 4000 critics.

The convention missionaries call "modesty" has no standard, and cannot have one, because it is opposed to nature and reason and is therefore an artificiality and subject to anybody's whim - anybody's diseased caprice.