Too much of anything is bad, but too much good whiskey is barely enough.

Alas! those good old days are gone, when a murderer could wipe the stain from his name and soothe his trouble to sleep simply by getting out his blocks and mortar and building an addition to a church.

It will take mind and memory months and possibly years to gather together the details, and thus learn and know the whole extent of the loss.

It is governed by minorities, seldom or never by majorities. It suppresses its feelings and its beliefs and follows the handful that makes the most noise. Sometimes the noisy handful is right, sometimes wrong, but no matter, the crowd follows it.

A better idea than my own is to listen.

Don't tell fish stories where the people know you; but particularly, don't tell them where they know the fish.

Man has imagined a heaven, and has left entirely out of it the supremest of all his delights...sexual intercourse!...His heaven is like himself: strange, interesting, astonishing, grotesque. I give you my word, it has not a single feature in it that he actually values.