The wars come and go in blood and tears; but whether they are bad wars, or what are comically called good wars, they are of one effect in death and sorrow.

What the American public wants in the theater is a tragedy with a happy ending.

If we like a man's dream, we call him a reformer; if we don't like his dream, we call him a crank.

The mortality of all inanimate things is terrible to me, but that of books most of all.

Inequality is as dear to the American heart as liberty itself.

It is the curse of prosperity that it takes work away from us, and shuts that door to hope and health of spirit.

If ever the public was betrayed by its press, it's ours.