The soul and substance of what customarily ranks as patriotism is moral cowardice -- and always has been.

In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards.

Man is the only animal that deals in that atrocity of atrocities, War. He is the only one that gathers his brethren about him and goes forth in cold blood and calm pulse to exterminate his kind.

Experience, the only logic sure to convince a diseased imagination and restore it to rugged health.

It is at our mother's knee that we acquire our noblest and truest and highest ideals.

What is the chief end of man?-to get rich. In what way?-dishonestly if we can; honestly if we must.

I never can think of Judas Iscariot without losing my temper. To my mind Judas Iscariot was nothing but a low, mean, premature, Congressman.

New Orleans food is as delicious as the less criminal forms of sin.

Difference between savage and civilized man: one is painted, the other gilded.

Broad, wholesome, charitable views .. can not be acquired by vegetating in one's little corner of the earth.