All I say is, kings is kings, and you got to make allowances. Take them all around, they're a mighty ornery lot. It's the way they're raised.

Such is professional jealousy; a scientist will never show any kindness for a theory which he did not start himself.

Shall we go on conferring our Civilization upon the peoples that sit in darkness, or shall we give those poor things a rest?

In early times some sufferer had to sit up with a toothache, and he put in the time inventing the German language.

God was left out of the Constitution but was furnished a front seat on the coins of the country.

It used to be a good hotel, but that proves nothing - I used to be a good boy.

All gentle cant and philosophizing to the contrary notwithstanding, no people in this world ever did achieve their freedom by goody-goody talk and moral suasion: it being immutable law that all revolutions that will succeed, must begin in blood.