It is governed by minorities, seldom or never by majorities. It suppresses its feelings and its beliefs and follows the handful that makes the most noise. Sometimes the noisy handful is right, sometimes wrong, but no matter, the crowd follows it.

Right is right, and wrong is wrong, and a body ain’t got no business doing wrong when he ain’t ignorant and knows better.

A soiled baby with a neglected nose cannot be conscientiously regarded as a thing of beauty.

There is this trouble about special providences namely, there is so often a doubt as to which party was intended to be the beneficiary. In the case of the children, the bears, and the prophet, the bears got more real satisfaction out of the episode than the prophet did, because they got the children.

Only one thing is impossible for God: To find any sense in any copyright law on the planet.

It is hard enough luck being a monarch, without being a target also.

This is the only sane clerical the earthquake has exposed to view yet.