It is perfectly easy to be original by violating the laws of decency and the canons of good taste.

Detached reflection cannot be demanded in the presence of an uplifted knife.

Taxes are what we pay for civilized society

If wine tells truth - and so have said the wise, It makes me laugh to think how brandy lies!

If there is any principle of the Constitution that more imperatively calls for attachment than any other it is the principle of free thought, not free thought for those who agree with us but freedom for the thought that we hate.

What a new face courage puts on everything. - Ralph Waldo Emerson To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old.

If I were dying, my last words would be: Have faith and pursue the unknown end.