Facts are stubborn, but statistics are more pliable.

Next you'd see a raft sliding by, away off yonder, and maybe a galoot on it chopping. . . you'd see the ax flash and come down-you don't hear nothing; you see the ax go up again, and by the time it's above the man's head then you hear the k'chunk!-it had took all that time to come over the water.

Of course, no man is entirely in his right mind at any time.

I should have been glad to acquire some sort of idea of Hindu theology, ... but the difficulties were too great.

Truth is such a precious article - let us all economize in its use.

Blasphemy? No, it is not blashphemy. If God is as vast as that, he is above blasphemy; if he is as little as that, He is beneath it.

To eat is human, to digest, divine