After all, why be good? How many will actually believe it of us?

For it is an absurdity to call a country civilized in which a decent and industrious man, laboriously mastering a trade which is valuble and necessary to the common weal, has no assurance that it will sustain him while he stands ready to practice it, or keep him out of the poorhouse when illness or age makes him idle.

Fame: an embalmer trembling with stage fright.

Wife: a former sweetheart.

My guess is that well over eighty per cent. of the human race goes through life without having a single original thought.

I believe that any man who takes the liberty of another into his keeping is bound to become a tyrant, and that any man who yields up his liberty, in however slight the measure, is bound to become a slave.

The truth that survives is simply the lie that is pleasantest to believe.