I am used to swan songs; I have sung them several times. - Mark Twain

December is the toughest month of the year. Others are July, January, September, April, November, May, March, June, October, August, and February.

I am persuaded that in Russia, Austria, and Germany nine-tenths of the hostility to the Jew comes from the average Christian's inability to compete successfully with the average Jew in business--in either straight business or the questionable sort.

This atrocious doctrine of allegiance to party plays directly into the hands of politicians of the baser sort—and doubtless for that it was borrowed — or stolen—from the monarchical system.