the attempt to make the consumption of beer criminal is as silly and as futile as if you passed a law to send a man to jail for eating cucumber salad

Men are able to trust one another, knowing the exact degree of dishonesty they are entitled to expect

Life, we learn too late, is in the living, the tissue of every day and hour

Newspapermen learn to call a murderer an alleged murderer and the King of England the alleged King of England to avoid libel suits

Electricity is of two kinds, positive and negative. The difference is, I presume, that one comes a little more expensive, but is more durable; the other is a cheaper thing, but the moths get into it

It's called political economy because it is has nothing to do with either politics or economy

Advertising may be described as the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it

Advertising: the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it

Now, the essence, the very spirit of Christmas is that we first make believe a thing is so, and lo, it presently turns out to be so