More than two hundred death penalties are gone from the law books, but the [biblical] texts that authorised them remain.

Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.

Let us not be too particular; it is better to have old secondhand diamonds than none at all.

Stars and shadows ain't good to see by.

I wish to become rich, so that I can instruct the people and glorify honest poverty a little, like those kind hearted, fat, benevolent people do.

I am always on the side of the revolutionists, because there never was a revolution unless there were some oppressive and intolerable conditions against which to revolute.

...one of the first achievements of the legislature was to institute a ten-thousand-dollar agricultural fair to show off forty dollars' worth of pumpkins in - however, the Territorial legislature was usually spoken of as the "asylum".