"I haven't a particle of confidence in a man who has no redeeming petty vices."

"Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run."

"Tomorrow night I appear for the first time before a Boston audience - 4000 critics. "

"A crowded police docket is the surest of all signs that trade is brisk and money plenty."

"A baby is an inestimable blessing and bother."

"The funniest things are the forbidden."

"Reader, suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself."

"When the doctrine of allegiance to party can utterly up-end a man's moral constitution and make a temporary fool of him besides, what excuse are you going to offer for preaching it, teaching it, extending it, perpetuating it? Shall you say, the best good of the country demands allegiance to party? Shall you also say it demands that a man kick his truth and his conscience into the gutter, and become a mouthing lunatic, besides?"

"Loyalty to petrified opinions never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul in this world - and never will."

"The difference between the right word and the almost right word is really a large matter - it's the difference between a lightning bug and the lightning."

"If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything."

"I am opposed to millionaires, but it would be dangerous to offer me the position."

"A round man cannot be expected to fit in a square hole right away. He must have time to modify his shape."

"In Boston they ask, How much does he know? In New York, How much is he worth? In Philadelphia, Who were his parents?"

"Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please."