There is no bigot like the atheist.

Over-civilization and barbarism are within an inch of each other. And a mark of both is the power of medicine-men.

If you attempt an actual argument with a modern paper of opposite politics, you will have no answer except slanging or silence.

I had always felt life first as a story: and if there is a story there is a story-teller

The average man votes below himself; he votes with half a mind or a hundredth part of one. A man ought to vote with the whole of himself, as he worships or gets married. A man ought to vote with his head and heart, his soul and stomach, his eye for faces and his ear for music; also (when sufficiently provoked) with his hands and feet. If he has ever seen a fine sunset, the crimson color of it should creep into his vote. The question is not so much whether only a minority of the electorate votes. The point is that only a minority of the voter votes.

Men spoke much in my boyhood about restricted or ruined men of genius: and it was common to say that many a man was a Great Might-Have-Been. To me it's a more solid and startling fact that any man in the street is a Great Might-Not-Have-Been.

Marriage halves our griefs, doubles our joys, and quadruples our expenses