No throne exists that has a right to exist, and no symbol of it, flying from any flagstaff, is righteously entitled to wear any device but the skull and crossbones of that kindred industry which differs from royalty only businesswise-merely as retail differs from wholesale.

America cannot have an empire abroad and a Republic at home.

There is not a single human characteristic that can be safely labeled as American.

There was things which he stretched, but mainly he told the truth.

Fortune knocks at every man's door once in a life, but in a good many cases the man is in a neighboring saloon and does not hear her.

Damn the subjunctive. It brings all our writers to shame.

The easy confidence with which I know another man's religion is folly teaches me to suspect that my own is also.