Rail-splitting produced an unparalleled president in Lincoln. But gold hasn't produced even a good A-1 congressman.

Fleas can be taught nearly anything that a congressman can

Women are the only people I am afraid of who I never thought would hurt me

I could have become a soldier if I had waited; I knew more about retreating than the man who invented retreating

The real yellow peril: Gold

Indecency, vulgarity, obscenity- these are strictly confined to man; he invented them. Among the higher animals there is no trace of them.