A nuisance may be merely a right thing in the wrong place - like a pig in the parlor instead of the barnyard.

A free press stands as one of the great interpreters between the government and the people. To allow it to be fettered is to fetter ourselves.

The legal right of a taxpayer to decrease the amount of what otherwise would be his taxes, or altogether avoid them, by means which the law permits, cannot be doubted.

If the provisions of the Constitution be not upheld when they pinch as well as when they comfort, they may as well be abandoned.

They say the average person can't make a living in art... but if you tell me there's something I can't do, that's what I have to do.

The snobbish lost in laud.

Revenge is a dish best eaten cold and there is no sweeter dish than outliving an enemy

There could be no honor in a sure success but much might be wrested from a sure defeat.

Christianity is a rebellion against natural law, a protest against nature. Taken to its logical extreme, Christianity would mean the systematic cultivation of the human failure.

My father was a patriarch inside a matriarchy, but never knew it.

What we feel is mortal, and won't come again.

And soon a branch, part of a hidden scene,The leafy mind, that long was tightly furled,Will turn its private substance into green,And young shoots spread upon our inner world.

I grew up playing sports. There is a clear line between success and failure.

In marriage a little licence, a little independence there must be between people living together day in and day out in the same house.