But that's always the way; it don't make no difference whether you do right or wrong, a person's conscience ain't got no sense, and just goes for him anyway. If I had a yaller dog that didn't know no more than a person's conscience does I would pison him. It takes up more room than all the rest of a person's insides, and yet ain't no good, nohow.

The soul and substance of what customarily ranks as patriotism is moral cowardice -- and always has been.

Go to Heaven for the climate, Hell for the company.

We despise all reverences and all objects of reverence which are outside the pale of our list of sacred things. And yet, with strange inconsistency, we are shocked when other people despise and defile the things which are holy to us.

We like to read about rich people in the newspapers; the papers know it, and they do their best to keep this appetite liberally fed.

There are people who can do all fine and heroic things but one - keep from telling their happiness to the unhappy.

To my mind that literature is best and most enduring which is characterized by a noble simplicity.