I said nothing of the sort.

Human beings seem to be a poor invention. If they are the noblest works of God where is the ignoblest?

It's not the parts of the Bible I don't know that worries me...it's the parts that I do.

In religion and politics people’s beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second-hand, and without examination, from authorities who have not themselves examined the questions at issue but have taken them at second-hand from other non-examiners, whose opinions about them were not worth a brass farthing.

In my nostrils still lives the breath of flowers that perished twenty years ago.

I repeat, sir, that in whatever position you place a woman she is an ornament to society and a treasure to the world. As a sweetheart, she has few equals and no superiors; as a cousin, she is convenient; as a wealthy grandmother with an incurable distemper, she is precious; as a wet-nurse, she has no equal among men. What, sir, would the people of the earth be without woman? They would be scarce, sir, almighty scarce.

If you don't know how to pronounce a word, say it loudly. Do not compound mispronunciation with inaudibility