I have been born more times than anybody except Krishna.

Heaven knows insanity was disreputable enough, long ago; but now that the lawyers have got to cutting every gallows rope and picking every prison lock with it, it is become a sneaking villainy that ought to hang and keep on hanging its sudden possessors until evil-doers should conclude that the safest plan was to never claim to have it until they came by it legitimately. The very calibre of the people the lawyers most frequently try to save by the insanity subterfuge ought to laugh the plea out of the courts, one would think.

No amount of evidence will ever persuade an idiot

Presbyterianism without infant damnation would be like the dog on the train that couldn't be identified because it had lost its tag.

Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else.

Few of us stand prosperity; another man's I mean.

A public library is the most enduring of memorials, the trustiest monument for the preservation of an event or a name or an affection; for it, and it only, is respected by wars and revolutions, and survives them.