It is yet another Civilized Power, with its banner of the Prince of Peace in one hand and its loot-basket and its butcher-knife in the other. Is there no salvation for us but to adopt Civilization and lift ourselves down to its level?.

Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.

His ignorance covers the world like a blanket, and there's scarcely a hole in it anywhere.

If Christ were here now there is one thing he would not be — a Christian.

I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up.

The equator was wisely put where it is, because if it had been run through Europe all the kings would have tried to grab it.

Never refuse to do a kindness unless the act would work great injury to yourself, and never refuse to take a drink - under any circumstances.