Human society is based on want. Life is based on want. Wild-eyed visionaries may dream of a world without need. Cloud-cuckoo-land. It can't be done.

In the middle years of the nineteenth century there first became abundant in this strange world of ours a class of men, men tending for the most part to become elderly, who are called, and who are very properly called, but who dislike extremely to be called--"Scientists.

Be a man!... What good is religion if it collapses under calamity? Think of what earthquakes and floods, wars and volcanoes, have done before to men! Did you think that God had exempted [us]? He is not an insurance agent.

I had rather be called a journalist than an artist.

Sailors ought never to go to church. They ought to go to hell, where it is much more comfortable.

Satan delights equally in statistics and in quoting scripture.

The path of social advancement is, and must be, strewn with broken friendships.