A national political campaign is better than the best circus ever heard of, with a mass baptism and a couple of hangings thrown in.

We must be willing to pay a price for freedom.

One of the most mawkish of human delusions is the notion that friendship should be eternal, or, at all events, life-long, and that any act which puts a term to it is somehow discreditable.

Nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public.

It is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man.

Say what you will about the ten commandments, you must always come back to the pleasant fact that there are only ten of them.