The more I learn about people, the more I like my dog.

The higher animals get their teeth without pain or inconvenience. Man gets his through months and months of cruel torture; he will never get a set which can really be depended on 'till a dentist makes him one.

I couldn't bear to think about it; and yet, somehow, I couldn't think about nothing else.

Irreverence is the champion of liberty and its only sure defense.

An occultation of Venus is not half so difficult as an eclipse of the sun, but because it comes seldom the world thinks it's a grand thing.

When the human race has once acquired a superstition, nothing short of death is ever likely to remove it.

There are some few people I respect and admire, but I don't think much of the species.