I should see an enemy of my country in any one who would change by force that which has been established by law.

If I wanted to do wrong, I could not.

Nothing need be apprehended from this miserable adventurer.

Talent is extremely common. What is rare is the willingness to endure the life of the writer.

High culture is paranoid about sentiment, but human beings are intensely sentimental. And if art doesn’t speak language that’s acceptable to people, it relegates itself to obscurity.

We must realize that even though the sacred text of the scriptures could never be improved or changed, flesh certainly can!

When in Rome, do as Rome does.

Most of our lives aren't that exciting, but the drama is still going on in the small details.

Everybody's got their poison, and mine is sugar.

Our republic and its press will rise and fall together.

Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.

I don't like juries having the wool pulled over their eyes. I don't think that's what the Constitution is about.

I'm stupidly proud of myself.