There are no people who are quite so vulgar as the over-refined.
A good legible label is usually worth, for information, a ton of significant attitude and expression in a historical picture.
We Americans worship the almighty dollar! Well, it is a worthier god than Heredity Privilege.
My experience with horses is that they never throw away a chance to go lame.
Often a quite assified remark becomes sanctified by use and petrified by custom; it is then a permanency, its term of activity a geologic period.
A person who has during all time maintained the imposing position of spiritual head of four-fifths of the human race, and political head of the whole of it, must be granted the possession of executive abilities of the loftiest order.
What marriage is to morality, a properly conducted licensed liquor traffic is to sobriety.
When someone dies, it is like when your house burns down; it isn’t for years that you realize the full extent of your loss.
Shall we go on conferring our Civilization upon the peoples that sit in darkness, or shall we give those poor things a rest?
Each person is born to one possession which outvalues all his others-his last breath.
We laugh and laugh. Then cry and cry- Then feebler laugh, Then die.
Oh Death where is thy sting! It has none. But life has.
To my mind that literature is best and most enduring which is characterized by a noble simplicity.
Some men worship rank, some worship heroes, some worship power, some worship God, and over these ideals they dispute-but they all worship money.
Astonishing things can be done with the human memory if you will devote it faithfully to one particular line of business.
Talking of patriotism, what humbug it is; it is a word which always commemorates a robbery.
The radical of one century is the conservative of the next.
The Moral Sense teaches us what is right, and how to avoid it-when unpopular.
You must not pay a person a compliment, and then straightway follow it with a criticism.
You feel mighty free and easy and comfortable on a raft.