Sweet is the scene where genial friendship plays the pleasing game of interchanging praise.

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

Science is the topography of ignorance.

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

I would never use a long word, even, where a short one would answer the purpose.

The Indian is but a sketch in red crayon of a rudimental manhood. To the problem of his relation to the white race, there is one solution: extermination.

A man may fulfill the object of his existence by asking a question he cannot answer, and attempting a task he cannot achieve.