No sane man can be happy, for to him life is real, and he sees what a fearful thing it is.

An occultation of Venus is not half so difficult as an eclipse of the sun, but because it comes seldom the world thinks it's a grand thing.

Each person is born to one possession which outvalues all his others-his last breath.

...mastery of the art and spirit of the Germanic language enables a man to travel all day in one sentence without changing cars.

Well - Patriotism has its laws. And it also is a perfectly definite one, there are not vaguenesses about it. It commands that the brother over the border shall be sharply watched and brought to book every time he does us a hurt or offends us with an insult.

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

In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards.