Imagine, if you will, that I am an idiot. Then, imagine that I am also a Congressman. But, alas, I repeat myself.

Nothing spoils a good story like the arrival of an eyewitness.

Prohibition only drives drunkenness behind doors and into dark places, and does not cure it or even diminish it.

The Impartial Friend: Death, the only immortal who treats us all alike, whose pity and whose peace and whose refuge are for all--the soiled and the pure, the rich and the poor, the loved and the unloved.

I thoroughly believe that any man who's got anything worthwhile to say will be heard if he only says it often enough.

If I were required to guess off-hand, and without collusion with higher minds, what is the bottom cause of the amazing material and intellectual advancement of the last fifty years, I should guess that it was the modern-born and previously non-existent disposition on the part of men to believe that a new idea can have value.

A country without a patent office and good patent laws is just a crab, and can't travel any way but sideways and backways.