An American has not seen the United States until he has seen Mardi-Gras in New Orleans.

God has put something noble and good into every heart His hand created.

I have not professionally dealt in truth. Many when they come to die have spent all the truth that was in them, and enter the next world as paupers. I have saved up enough to make an astonishment there.

There is no such thing as a new idea. We simply take a lot of old ideas and put them into a sort of mental kaleidoscope.

Honest poverty is a gem that even a king might be proud to call his own - but I wish to sell out

Heaven is by favor; if it were by merit your dog would go in and you would stay out. Of all the creatures ever made (man) is the most detestable. Of the entire brood, he is the only one... that possesses malice. He is the only creature that inflicts pain for sport, knowing it to be pain.

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