In America-as elsewhere-free speech is confined to the dead.

Annihilation has no terrors for me, because I have already tried it before I was born -a hundred million years -and I have suffered more in an hour, in this life, than I remember to have suffered in the whole hundred million years put together. There was a peace, a serenity, an absence of all sense of responsibility, an absence of worry, an absence of care, grief, perplexity; and the presence of a deep content and unbroken satisfaction in that hundred million years of holiday which I look back upon with a tender longing and with a grateful desire to resume, when the opportunity comes.

All schools, all colleges have two great functions: to confer, and to conceal valuable knowledge.

If you are with the quality, or at a funeral, or trying to go to sleep when you ain't sleepy - if you are anywheres where it won't do for you to scratch, why you will itch all over in upwards of a thousand places.

Love is an irreresisistible desire to be irresistibily desired.

Men are more compassionate/(nobler)/magnanimous/generous than God; for men forgive their dead, but God does not.

I was seldom able to see an opportunity until it had ceased to be one.