“Well, there are times when one would like to hang the whole human race and finish the farce.”

“There are times when I would like to hang the whole human race, and finish the farce.”

“If we would learn what the human race really is at bottom, we need only observe it in election times.”

“The human race has only one really effective weapon and that is laughter.”

“The human race is a race of cowards; and I am not only marching in that procession but carrying a banner.”

“The time to begin writing an article is when you have finished it to your satisfaction. By that time you begin to clearly and logically perceive what it is you really want to say.”

“There are things which some people never attempt during their whole lives, but one of these is not poetry. Poetry attacks all human beings sooner or later, and, like the measles, is mild or violent according to the age of the sufferer.”