There's always something about your success that displeases even your best friends.

I can't do no literary work for the rest of this year because I'm meditating another lawsuit and looking around for a defendant.

To arrive at a just estimate of a renowned man's character one must judge it by the standards of his time, not ours.

Good judgement is the result of experience and experience the result of bad judgement.

...one should be gentle with the ignorant, for they are the chosen of God.

Religion consists in a set of things which the average man thinks he believes and wishes he was certain of.

This is a Christian country. Why, so is hell. Inasmuch as Strait is the way and narrow is the gate, and few - few - are they that enter in thereat has had the natural effect of making hell the only really prominent Christian community in any of the worlds; but we don't brag of this and certainly it is not proper to brag and boast that America is a Christian country when we all know that certainly five-sixths of our population could not enter in at the narrow gate.