Man was made at the end of the week's work when God was tired.

Never put off till tomorrow what you can do day after tomorrow just as well.

A man who keeps company with glaciers comes to feel tolerably insignificant by and by.

My first American ancestor, gentlemen, was an Indian-an early Indian. Your ancestors skinned him alive, and I am an orphan. All those Salem witches were ancestors of mine. Your people made it tropical for them. . . . The first slave brought into New England out of Africa was an ancestor of mine-for I am a mixed breed, an infinitely shaded and exquisite Mongrel.

In all the ages the Roman Church has owned slaves, bought and sold slaves, authorized and encouraged her children to trade in them. . . . There were the texts; there was no mistaking their meaning; . . . she was doing in all this thing what the Bible had mapped out for her to do. So unassailable was her position that in all the centuries she had no word to say against human slavery.

There are German songs which can make a stranger to the language cry.

A reputable lawyer will advise you to keep out of the law, make the best of a foolish bargain, and not get caught again.