Every blade of grass is a study; and to produce two, where there was but one, is both a profit and a pleasure.

When you have got a ticket to send, and you're not a top costumer, it's best not to waste your time.

you can't escape tomorrow's responsibilities by evading it today

Let us at all times remember that all American citizens are brothers of a common country, and should dwell together in bonds of fraternal feeling.

The Bible is not my book and Christianity is not my religion. I could never give assent to the long complicated statements of Christian dogma.

With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.

You may burn my body to ashes, and scatter them to the winds of heaven; you may drag my soul down to the regions of darkness and despair to be tormented forever; but you will never get me to support a measure which I believe to be wrong, although by doing so I may accomplish that which I believe to be right.