Americans always do the right thing, once they have exhausted all other possibilities.

...every offensive lost its force as it proceeded. It was like throwing a bucket of water over the floor. It first rushed forward, then soaked forward, and finally stopped altogether until another bucket could be brought.

It would be a great reform in politics if perception could be made to spread as easily and as rapidly as foolishness.

Dead birds don't fall out of their nests.

Working hours are never long enough. Each day is a holiday, and ordinary holidays are grudged as enforced interruptions in an absorbing vocation.

Where there is a great deal of free speech there is always a certain amount of foolish speech.

We get to make a living; we give to make a life.