It recognizes no morality but a sham morality meant for deceit, no honor even among thieves and of a thievish sort, no force but physical force, no intellectual power but cunning, no disgrace but failure, no crime but stupidity.

I used to be a lawyer, but now I am a reformed character.

Tolerance is an admirable intellectual gift; but it is of little worth in politics.

The only place in the world that nothing has to be explained to me is the South.

We are in the presence of a new organization of society. Our life has broken away from the past.

Responsibility is proportionate to opportunity.

Scholarship cannot do without literature.... It needs literature to float it, to set it current, to authenticate it to all the race, to get it out of closets and into the brains of men who stir abroad.