Surely the ass who invented the first religion ought to be the first ass damned

Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness.

God has put something noble and good into every heart His hand created.

There are things which some people never attempt during their whole lives, but one of these is not poetry. Poetry attacks all human beings sooner or later, and, like the measles, is mild or violent according to the age of the sufferer.

A friend is someone who stays in when the rest of the world has gone out.

But who prays for Satan? Who in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most, our one fellow and brother who most needed a friend yet had not a single one, the one sinner among us all who had the highest and clearest right to every Christian's daily and nightly prayers, for the plain and unassailable reason that his was the first and greatest need, he being among sinners the supremest?

I could never learn to like her, except on a raft at sea with no other provisions in sight.