The New York papers have long known that no large question is ever really settled until I have been consulted.

It is easier to stay out than get out.

If true, rarely beautiful. If beautiful, rarely true.

Men think they think upon the great political questions, and they do; but they think with their party, not independently; they read its literature, but not that of the other side

Annihilation has no terrors for me, because I have already tried it before I was born --a hundred million years --and I have suffered more in an hour, in this life, than I remember to have suffered in the whole hundred million years put together.

You take the lies out of him, and he'll shrink to the size of your hat; you take the malice out of him, and he'll disappear.

When I reflect upon the number of disagreeable people who I know have gone to a better world, I am moved to lead a different life.