All right, then, I'll go to hell.

No man that has ever lived has done a thing to please God--primarily. It was done to please himself, then God next.

Why do you sit there looking like an envelope without any address on it?

You see, he knew his own laws just as other people so often know the laws: by words, not by effects. They take a meaning, and get to be very vivid, when you come to apply them to yourself.

If you had made the acquiring of ignorance the study of your life, you could not have graduated with higher honor than you could to-day.

I have no race prejudices, and I think I have no color prejudices or caste prejudices nor creed prejudices. Indeed I know it. I can stand any society. All that I care to know is that a man is a human being-that is enough for me; he can't be any worse.

Everybody's private motto: It's better to be popular than right.