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| We like a man to come right out and say what he thinks - if we agree with him | | Uncategorized | |
| We may not pay Satan reverence, for that would be indiscreet, but we can at least respect his talent | | Uncategorized | |
| We must annex those people. We can afflict them with our wise and beneficent government. We can introduce the novelty of thieves, all the way up from street-car pickpockets to municipal robbers and Government defaulters, and show them how amusing it is to arrest them and try them and then turn them loose -- some for cash and some for ''political influence.'' We can make them ashamed of their simple and primitive justice. We can make that little bunch of sleepy islands the hottest corner on earth, and array it in the moral splendor of our high and holy civilization. Annexation is what the poor islanders need. ''Shall we to men benighted, the lamp of life deny?'' | | Uncategorized | |
| We must put up with clothes as they are they have their reason for existing. They are on us to expose us to advertise what we wear them to conceal. | | Uncategorized | |
| We often feel sad in the presence of music without words; and often more than that in the presence of music without music | | Uncategorized | |
| We owe a deep debt of gratitude to Adam, the first great benefactor of the human race: he brought death into the world. | | Uncategorized | |
| We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it / and stop there; lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove-lid. She will never sit down on a hot stove-lid again / and that is well; but also she will never sit down on a cold one anymore. | | Uncategorized | |
| We write frankly and freely but then we modify before we print | | Uncategorized | |
| We [Americans] are the lavishest and showiest and most luxury-loving people on the earth; and at our masthead we fly one true and honest symbol, the gaudiest flag the world has ever seen. | | America and Americans; World | |
| Weather is a literary specialty, and no untrained hand can turn out a good article on it | | Weather | |
| Well enough for old folks to rise early, because they have done so many mean things all their lives they can't sleep anyhow. | | Uncategorized | |
| Well, we can take you to meet Napoleon -- but he's shining the boots of the person who actually was the world's greatest military genius. He happens to have been a tinsmith from Pennsylvania who never had a chance to go to a military academy -- so he never even knew he was a great military genius. He was born with that capacity -- and only here in heaven do we actually know who these people are. | | Uncategorized | |
| What a good thing Adam had. When he said a good thing he knew nobody had said it before. | | Uncategorized | |
| What a lie it is to call this a free country, where none but the unworthy and undeserving may swear. | | Uncategorized | |
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| What a wee little part of a person's life are his acts and his words! His real life is led in his head, and is known to none but himself | | Uncategorized | |
| What do you call love, hate, charity, revenge, humanity, magnanimity, forgiveness? Different results of the one master impulse: the necessity of securing one's self-approval | | Charity | |
| What is human life? The first third a good time; the rest remembering about it | | Uncategorized | |
| What is the difference between a taxidermist and a tax collector? The taxidermist takes only your skin | | Uncategorized | |
| What is the most rigorous law of our being? Growth. No smallest atom of our moral, mental, or physical structure can stand still a year. It grows / it must grow; nothing can prevent it. | | Uncategorized | |
