There are two things nobody should ever have to watch being made, sausage and laws.

Public opinion is held in reverence. It settles everything. Some think it is the voice of God.

Most people are bothered by those passages of Scripture they do not understand, but the passages that bother me are those I do understand.

Both marriage and death ought to be welcome: the one promises happiness, doubtless the other assures it.

Yes - en I's rich now, come to look at it. I owns myself, en I's wuth eight hund'd dollars. I wisht I had de money, I wouldn' want no mo'.

Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.

I am a great and sublime fool. But then I am God's fool, and all His works must be contemplated with respect.