To make our morality center on forbidden acts is to defile the imagination and to introduce into our judgments of our fellow men a secret element of gusto.

To believe in immortality is one thing, but it is first needful to believe in life.

Take care of each other.

Although I may express myself with some degree of pleasantry the purport of my words is entirely serious.

There is but one art, to omit! Oh, if I knew how to omit I would ask no other knowledge. A man who knows how to omit would make an Iliad of a daily paper.

Everyone lives by selling something.

Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.