Everything has its limit - iron ore cannot be educated into gold.

Man is a marvelous curiosity...he thinks he is the Creator's pet...he even believes the Creator loves him; has passion for him; sits up nights to admire him; yes and watch over him and keep him out of trouble. He prays to him and thinks he listens. Isn't it a quaint idea.

It is better to support schools than jails.

Concerning the difference between man and the jackass: some observers hold that there isn't any. But this wrongs the jackass.

Wagner has some great moments, but a lot of miserable half hours.

The equator was wisely put where it is, because if it had been run through Europe all the kings would have tried to grab it.

Solomon, who was one of the Deity's favorites, had a copulation cabinet composed of seven hundred wives and three hundred concubines. To save his life he could not have kept two of these young creatures satisfactorily refreshed, even if he had fifteen experts to help him. Necessarily almost the entire thousand had to go hungry for years and years on a stretch. Conceive of a man hardhearted enough to look daily upon all that suffering and not be moved to mitigate it.