The low level which commercial morality has reached in America is deplorable. We have humble God fearing Christian men among us who will stoop to do things for a million dollars that they ought not to be willing to do for less than 2 millions.

My first American ancestor, gentlemen, was an Indian-an early Indian. Your ancestors skinned him alive, and I am an orphan. All those Salem witches were ancestors of mine. Your people made it tropical for them. . . . The first slave brought into New England out of Africa was an ancestor of mine-for I am a mixed breed, an infinitely shaded and exquisite Mongrel.

A person who won't read has no advantage over one who can't read.

When one reads Bibles, one is less surprised at what the Deity knows than at what He doesn't know.

The trouble with the world is not that people know too little; it's that they know so many things that just aren't so.

I am able to say that while I am not ruggedly well, I am not ill enough to excite an undertaker.

It is sound judgment to put on a bold face and play your hand for a hundred times what it is worth; forty-nine times out of fifty nobody dares to call it, and you roll in the chips.