The Christian Bible is a drug store. It´s contents have remained the same but the medical practice continues. For 1,800 years these changes were slight--scarcely noticeable... The dull and ignorant physician day and night, and all the days and all the nights, drenched his patient with vast and hideous doses of the most repulsive drugs to be found in the store´s stock. He kept him religion sick for eighteen centuries, and allowed him not a well day during all that time.

Steal a chicken if you get a chance, Huck, because if you don't want it, someone else does and a good deed ain't never forgotten.

All men are ignorant, just on different subjects.

Shut the door not that it lets in the cold but that it lets out the coziness.

Worrying is paying interest on a debt you might not even owe.

It’s not the good that die young, it’s the lucky.

My faculties are decaying now and soon I shall be so I cannot remember any but the things that never happened.