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.

The blunting effects of slavery upon the slaveholder's moral perceptions are known and conceded the world over; and a priveleged class, an aristocracy, is but a band of slaveholders under another name.

A little starvation can really do more for the average sick man than can the best medicines and the best doctors.

Some of us cannot be optimists, but all of us can be bigamists

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

Of the delights of this world man cares most for sexual intercourse.

God rewards gamblers and fools. The crucial thing, when you win, is knowing which you were.