People who honestly mean to be true really contradict themselves much more rarely than those who try to be 'consistent'.

The very aim and end of our institutions is just this: that we may think what we like and say what we think.

Chicago sounds rough to the maker of verse. One comfort we have - Cincinnati sounds worse.

A pun does not commonly justify a blow in return. But if a blow were given for such cause, and death ensued, the jury would be judges both of the facts and of the pun, and might, if the latter were of an aggravated character, return a verdict of justifiable homicide.

Speak clearly, if you speak at all; carve every word before you let it fall.

A few can touch the magic string, and noisy fame is proud to win them: Alas for those that never sing, but die with all their music in them!

Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtasked. Good mental machinery ought to break its own wheels and levers, if anything is thrust among them suddenly which tends to stop them or reverse their motion. A weak mind does not accumulate force enough to hurt itself; stupidity often saves a man from going mad.