Society and the World

It is a good thing to write for the amusement of the public, but it is a far higher and nobler thing to write for their instruction, their profit, their actual and tangible benefit.

No real estate is permanently valuable but the grave.

All war must be just the killing of strangers against whom you feel no personal animosity; strangers whom, in other circumstances, you would help if you found them in trouble, and who would help you if you needed it.

All war must be just the killing of strangers against whom you feel no personal animosity; strangers whom, in other circumstances, you would help if you found them in trouble, and who would help you if you needed it.

Of the demonstrably wise there are but two: those who commit suicide, & those who keep their reasoning faculties atrophied with drink.

Patriotism is usually the refuge of the scoundrel. He is the man who talks the loudest .

Patriotism is usually the refuge of the scoundrel. He is the man who talks the loudest .

It's lovely to live on a raft. We had the sky up there, all speckled with stars, and we used to lay on our backs and look up at them, and discuss about whether they was made or only just happened.

I don't know of a single foreign product that enters this country untaxed, except the answer to prayer.

An American has not seen the United States until he has seen Mardi-Gras in New Orleans.

An American has not seen the United States until he has seen Mardi-Gras in New Orleans.

The cost of living hasn't effected its popularity.

I found out that I was a Christian for revenue only and I could not bear the thought of that, it was so ignoble.

We all do no end of feeling, and we mistake it for thinking.

The universal brotherhood of man is our most precious possession.

The universal brotherhood of man is our most precious possession.

A man is accepted into a church for what he believes and he is turned out for what he knows.

Work is a necessary evil to be avoided.

I try never to let my schooling get in the way of my education.

Out of the public schools comes the greatness of the nation.

There are those who would misteach us that to stick in a rut is consistency - and a virtue, and that to climb out of the rut is inconsistency - and a vice.

Politicians, old buildings, and prostitutes become respectable with age.

Simplified spelling is all right, but, like chastity, you can carry it too far.

The idea that no gentleman ever swears is all wrong. He can swear and still be a gentleman if he does it in a nice and benevolent and affectionate way.