I saw that I'd get nowhere on the straight path, and that to go crookedly was straighter.

A time of famine and poverty will come and the people as a whole as well as every individual in it will suffer.

They don’t listen to me, they don’t hear me, they don’t see me.

There exists a kind of laughter which is worthy to be ranked with the higher lyric emotions and is infinitely different from the twitching of a mean merrymaker.

The more debris there is the more it will show the governor's activity.

For public opinion does not admit that lofty rapturous laughter is worthy to stand beside lofty lyrical emotion and that there isall the difference in the world between it and the antics of a clown at a fair.

I tell everyone very plainly that I take bribes, but what kind of bribes? Why, greyhound puppies. That's a totally different matter.