A proud man is one who waits for a vacancy in the Trinity.

I purpose publishing these Letters here in the world before I return to you. Two editions. One, unedited, for Bible readers and their children; the other, expurgated, for persons of refinement

Darwin abolished special creations, contributed the Origin of Species and hitched all life together in one unbroken procession of Siamese Twins, the whole evolved by natural and orderly processes from one microscopic parent germ.

One learns peoples through the heart, not the eyes or the intellect.

You know that kind of quiver that trembles around through you when you are seeing something so strange and enchanting and wonderful that it is just a fearful joy to be alive and look at it; and you know how you gaze, and your lips turn dry and your breath comes short, but you wouldn't be anywhere but there, not for the world.

Do you reckon Tom Sawyer was satisfied after all them adventures?

I never write Metropolis for seven cents because I can get the same price for city. I never write policeman because I can get the same money for cop.