The true pioneer of civilization is not the newspaper, not religion, not the railroad - but whiskey!

When one's character begins to fall under suspicion and disfavor, how swift, then, is the work of disintegration and destruction.

Note that venerable proverb: Children and fools always speak the truth. The deduction is plain: adults and wise persons never speak it.

Authorship is not a trade, it is an inspiration; authorship does not keep an office, its habitation is all out under the sky, and everywhere the winds are blowing and the sun is shining and the creatures of God are free.

Music is a good thing; and after all that soul-butter and hogwash, I never see it freshen up things so, and sound so honest and bully.

If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way.

There is no other life; life itself is only a vision and a dream for nothing exists but space and you. If there was an all-powerful God, he would have made all good, and no bad.